WEBVTT - Treasured Truth Weekend— Taming Temptation, Part 3 0:00:00.290 --> 0:00:04.250 Anything you have to ask? Is it sin? Is sin 0:00:04.250 --> 0:00:08.209 to you? That's what the Bible says. It says whatsoever 0:00:08.210 --> 0:00:11.300 is not of faith is sin. So if I can't 0:00:11.300 --> 0:00:14.570 do it in faith, I shouldn't do it because it 0:00:14.570 --> 0:00:15.560 becomes sin. 0:00:21.860 --> 0:00:24.950 Welcome to Treasure Truth with pastor and author James Ford, 0:00:24.950 --> 0:00:28.010 junior senior pastor of Christ Bible Church in Chicago. I'm 0:00:28.010 --> 0:00:30.020 Steve Hiller. Glad you're with us as we continue a 0:00:30.020 --> 0:00:34.670 message taming temptation and pastor, it sounds like you're saying, 0:00:34.700 --> 0:00:37.850 and I love how simply you put this. If we 0:00:37.880 --> 0:00:41.270 are wondering whether or not a certain thing that maybe 0:00:41.300 --> 0:00:44.389 we're tempted to do is sin or not, we don't know, 0:00:44.450 --> 0:00:46.669 it's best to err on the side of caution and 0:00:46.670 --> 0:00:48.140 not go ahead and do that thing. 0:00:48.170 --> 0:00:52.220 Well, right. And and we need to realize, you know, 0:00:52.250 --> 0:00:55.400 I used to think that there were gray areas in 0:00:55.400 --> 0:01:01.860 the Bible, things that God hadn't addressed that have, you know, 0:01:01.860 --> 0:01:07.140 contemporary application. In other words, they didn't have these things 0:01:07.140 --> 0:01:09.959 back in the day, in the Bible Day. Yeah. But 0:01:09.959 --> 0:01:12.600 we we deal with things. And so I don't know, 0:01:12.600 --> 0:01:18.120 because the Bible, it doesn't specifically state whether I should 0:01:18.150 --> 0:01:21.690 or whether I shouldn't. Well, here, this verse is so 0:01:21.690 --> 0:01:26.310 powerful because it takes away the gray areas. Can you 0:01:26.310 --> 0:01:31.559 do this in faith? It's a simple question. Yes or no? 0:01:31.590 --> 0:01:33.390 No. Explain what you mean by that. Can you do 0:01:33.390 --> 0:01:34.560 this in faith? 0:01:34.560 --> 0:01:39.690 That is, you have no doubt whatsoever, because faith and 0:01:39.690 --> 0:01:42.330 doubt are like oil and water. 0:01:42.360 --> 0:01:43.050 Okay. Yep. 0:01:43.170 --> 0:01:46.590 They will not mix. And so we're supposed to walk 0:01:46.590 --> 0:01:50.850 by faith and not by sight. So Hebrews one faith 0:01:50.850 --> 0:01:53.520 is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of 0:01:53.520 --> 0:01:58.110 things not seen. Hebrews 11 six without faith it is 0:01:58.110 --> 0:02:01.270 impossible to please him, for he that cometh to God 0:02:01.270 --> 0:02:03.700 must believe that he is, and that he is a 0:02:03.700 --> 0:02:07.030 rewarder of them that diligently seek him. So then we 0:02:07.060 --> 0:02:10.240 are people of faith. Second Corinthians five seven we walk 0:02:10.240 --> 0:02:13.390 by faith and not by sight. So God wants us 0:02:13.389 --> 0:02:15.669 to live in the realm of faith. Now I've defined 0:02:15.669 --> 0:02:17.800 it over and over again, but I'll do it one 0:02:17.800 --> 0:02:20.650 more time, because there may be someone listening who didn't 0:02:20.650 --> 0:02:23.950 hear the last time I did the definition. Faith is believing. 0:02:23.950 --> 0:02:26.800 It is so, even when it's not so until it 0:02:26.800 --> 0:02:30.850 becomes so. Because God said so and so. Faith gives 0:02:30.850 --> 0:02:36.250 me insight into foresight like it's hindsight. In other words, 0:02:36.280 --> 0:02:40.959 I know I can do this in confidence if I can't. 0:02:40.990 --> 0:02:45.609 My motto is when in doubt, don't. 0:02:45.639 --> 0:02:48.880 And I think for a lot of people, that is 0:02:48.880 --> 0:02:51.610 the best possible advice that you could give them as 0:02:51.610 --> 0:02:55.209 they're facing a situation. Does that ever lead to what 0:02:55.210 --> 0:02:58.150 we would maybe call someone acting like a Pharisee then? 0:02:58.270 --> 0:03:02.829 Uh, it could, it really could. But I like what 0:03:02.860 --> 0:03:05.620 I'm a Pittsburgh Steelers fan. 0:03:05.650 --> 0:03:06.760 I won't hold that against you. 0:03:06.790 --> 0:03:09.160 I know, I know. If God can forgive me, so 0:03:09.160 --> 0:03:13.390 can you bears fans. But Chuck Noll, a former coach 0:03:13.389 --> 0:03:18.040 of the Steelers, said this. He said stubbornness is a virtue. 0:03:18.070 --> 0:03:19.480 If you're right. 0:03:19.540 --> 0:03:19.989 Mm. 0:03:20.169 --> 0:03:25.420 And so the question on the floor, then, is it right? 0:03:25.450 --> 0:03:27.910 Then you need to be stubborn about it as opposed 0:03:27.910 --> 0:03:30.100 to being pharisaical. 0:03:30.130 --> 0:03:33.130 Well, with that, let's open up our Bibles to first 0:03:33.130 --> 0:03:36.160 Corinthians ten and dive into what God's Word says on 0:03:36.160 --> 0:03:39.430 this whole topic of temptation as we continue a message 0:03:39.430 --> 0:03:42.760 simply entitled Taming Temptation. Here is Pastor Ford. 0:03:43.120 --> 0:03:50.170 Our efficiency is a deficiency without Christ. All sufficiency. Let 0:03:50.170 --> 0:03:52.630 me say that again. I like the way that play. 0:03:52.660 --> 0:03:56.950 As Rommel would say, our efficiency is a deficiency without Christ. 0:03:56.980 --> 0:04:01.310 All sufficiency. There's a there's a Chinese proverb. Here's what 0:04:01.310 --> 0:04:06.890 it says. An unguarded strength is a double weakness. So 0:04:06.890 --> 0:04:09.650 just in the area, you think you're strong, that's going 0:04:09.680 --> 0:04:11.630 to be the area that he's going to try to 0:04:11.660 --> 0:04:14.570 catch you off guard because you think you're so strong. 0:04:15.470 --> 0:04:17.300 I ain't going to never do this. I ain't never 0:04:17.330 --> 0:04:21.650 do that. Mm. Okay. Watch I hate to get the 0:04:21.650 --> 0:04:26.089 Bible on this, but but check this out. The great 0:04:26.089 --> 0:04:28.190 men and women of the Bible, did they fall in 0:04:28.190 --> 0:04:29.720 the area of their strength or in the area of 0:04:29.750 --> 0:04:33.770 their weakness? Okay, I did a little survey. Abraham. What 0:04:33.770 --> 0:04:37.070 was his strength? Obedience. He's called the father of the faithful. 0:04:37.100 --> 0:04:43.760 Where did he fail? Obedience. Noah. What was his? His, uh, main. 0:04:43.790 --> 0:04:48.200 What was his main strength? Discipline. For 120 years, he 0:04:48.200 --> 0:04:50.720 had a three word sermon, and he built a boat 0:04:51.080 --> 0:04:54.589 thousands of miles from. From water. And what did he do? 0:04:54.620 --> 0:04:56.419 Come off the boat and got drunk. He fell in 0:04:56.420 --> 0:05:00.690 the area of his discipline. What about Isaac Truth teller. 0:05:00.720 --> 0:05:04.830 And where did he fail? Telling the truth. What was. 0:05:04.860 --> 0:05:09.360 What was Moses? Strength. Meekness? What happened to him? I 0:05:09.360 --> 0:05:13.890 give you water. I'm sick and tired of you. Yeah. 0:05:13.920 --> 0:05:19.589 What was David's strength? Integrity? Where did he fall? Integrity. 0:05:19.620 --> 0:05:26.099 What was Elijah's strength? Faith. Where did he fall? Faith. 0:05:26.130 --> 0:05:31.890 What was Uzziah's strength? Adherence to God's word. Where did 0:05:31.890 --> 0:05:38.339 he fall? Failing to adhere to God's word. What was 0:05:38.339 --> 0:05:44.790 Peter's strength? Courage. What makes the muskrat guard his musk? Courage? 0:05:45.420 --> 0:05:51.000 Where did he fail? Courage. In unguarded strength is a 0:05:51.000 --> 0:05:54.960 double weakness. You write these down. If you're. If you're. 0:05:54.960 --> 0:06:01.310 If you're keeping notes. Proverbs 1618. Proverbs 1618. Proverbs 11 two. 0:06:02.240 --> 0:06:12.800 Proverbs 11 two. Proverbs 1533. No escape, no exemptions. And 0:06:12.800 --> 0:06:19.340 if we understand and apply it, we'll see then. No excuses, 0:06:19.880 --> 0:06:26.930 no excuses. It says, But God is faithful. Now you 0:06:26.930 --> 0:06:29.660 know what our first excuse is for most of us? 0:06:29.720 --> 0:06:33.110 The devil made me do it. The devil made me 0:06:33.140 --> 0:06:37.400 do it. Now, granted, he does play a role in temptation. 0:06:37.400 --> 0:06:41.090 You know what he'll do? He'll whisper to us. It's 0:06:41.089 --> 0:06:47.510 okay to look at. It's alright to listen to. Ain't 0:06:47.540 --> 0:06:53.300 no problem with being there. So do this, do that. 0:06:53.330 --> 0:06:57.410 One's not going to hurt you. How about this one? 0:06:57.410 --> 0:07:00.890 This will be the last It's time. 0:07:02.540 --> 0:07:04.010 To go home. 0:07:05.390 --> 0:07:10.280 Look, just a little is not going to hurt you. See, 0:07:10.280 --> 0:07:14.360 the devil is a camouflage expert. He makes sin look good. 0:07:14.360 --> 0:07:17.390 What does he do, pastor? Glad you asked. He calls 0:07:17.420 --> 0:07:22.910 our attention to sin. That's our eyes. First we see it. 0:07:23.240 --> 0:07:28.250 Then he causes our attraction to sin. That's the mind. 0:07:28.280 --> 0:07:34.940 Then we sense it. Then he captures our affection for sin. 0:07:34.940 --> 0:07:40.040 That's the emotions. We settle for it. Then he corrupts 0:07:40.040 --> 0:07:45.950 our ambition in sin. That's the volition we serve it. 0:07:46.880 --> 0:07:49.730 It's a process. All you got to do is look 0:07:49.760 --> 0:07:53.900 and see. When he tempted Eve with the Word of God, 0:07:53.900 --> 0:07:57.230 what he did to the Word of God. I mean, 0:07:57.230 --> 0:08:00.140 he distorted it. He said, come on, hath God said 0:08:00.140 --> 0:08:02.130 he knew if he came up and just said, The 0:08:02.130 --> 0:08:06.510 Bible doesn't teach this. No, no. Is this the right interpretation? 0:08:09.330 --> 0:08:13.950 Well guess what? Some things don't need an interpretation, do they? 0:08:14.400 --> 0:08:20.550 Like Romans chapter one, when he says homosexuality is an abomination. 0:08:21.510 --> 0:08:26.130 Anybody remember what an abomination is? Sin means to miss 0:08:26.130 --> 0:08:28.950 the mark. You got a bull's eye, hermesia. And it 0:08:28.950 --> 0:08:32.520 means an archer shooting his arrow. And he completely misses 0:08:32.520 --> 0:08:36.000 the bull's eye. You know what an abomination is? You 0:08:36.000 --> 0:08:39.540 ain't even aiming in the right direction. Ain't no way 0:08:39.540 --> 0:08:42.030 you can hit it because you ain't even aiming in 0:08:42.030 --> 0:08:48.510 the right direction. Look, I tell you all the time, 0:08:48.510 --> 0:08:51.480 you can't defeat the devil you've been dating all week. 0:08:52.050 --> 0:08:56.940 Can't cast them out if you're going to bed with him. Satan, 0:08:56.940 --> 0:08:59.189 I rebuke you in the name of Jesus. Oh, shut 0:08:59.190 --> 0:09:04.170 up and get in his bed. Adrian Rogers, the late, 0:09:04.170 --> 0:09:07.620 great preacher of the gospel, used to say this. We 0:09:07.620 --> 0:09:12.120 used to have strapless gowns. Now we have gown straps. 0:09:12.150 --> 0:09:17.100 Now people come downtown and what they shouldn't come downstairs in. 0:09:18.150 --> 0:09:22.860 And some of us get spiritual and blame God. Remember 0:09:22.860 --> 0:09:28.170 what Adam did. Who'd he blame? Holler it out. Okay. Wow. 0:09:28.230 --> 0:09:35.100 I am so relieved that you all said that. Finally. Yeah, 0:09:35.100 --> 0:09:39.510 he blamed God because God is emphatic in the Hebrew text. 0:09:39.540 --> 0:09:45.239 The woman you gave me. This is your fault. And 0:09:45.240 --> 0:09:47.010 a whole lot of people do that, don't they? 0:09:47.880 --> 0:09:50.700 Well, he gave me all these desires. 0:09:52.290 --> 0:09:54.809 You know why he won't hook a brother up like that? 0:09:56.730 --> 0:09:57.510 Mhm. 0:09:58.380 --> 0:10:05.500 And so James reminds us. James 113 we're tempted when 0:10:05.500 --> 0:10:08.350 we're drawn away from our own lusts. Anybody who was 0:10:08.350 --> 0:10:11.380 here when we when we when we talked about that, 0:10:11.590 --> 0:10:15.670 we said, James talks about the inception of sin, then 0:10:15.670 --> 0:10:19.569 the deception of sin, then the reception of sin, then 0:10:19.570 --> 0:10:23.320 the conception of sin. And he says it's a process. 0:10:23.350 --> 0:10:25.929 And so what do we do? We need to understand 0:10:25.929 --> 0:10:30.850 that it coerces our emotion, it captures our mind, then 0:10:30.850 --> 0:10:34.360 it controls our will. Chinese proverb says his way. First 0:10:34.390 --> 0:10:38.470 the man takes a drink, then the drink takes a drink. 0:10:38.500 --> 0:10:42.220 Then the drink takes the man. Then that's what happens 0:10:42.220 --> 0:10:45.939 to us. The little boy was told not to eat 0:10:45.940 --> 0:10:49.420 the cookies. He got caught. Here's his explanation. I got 0:10:49.450 --> 0:10:54.730 on the chair to smell them and my teeth got stuck. 0:10:55.660 --> 0:11:00.260 Can I ask you a question? What's your teeth stuck two. 0:11:01.670 --> 0:11:02.150 Mm. 0:11:04.100 --> 0:11:06.710 So you got to be careful. Why? Because the Bible 0:11:06.710 --> 0:11:13.190 says that God will allow us to have what we 0:11:13.190 --> 0:11:16.340 want that he doesn't want us to have, so that 0:11:16.340 --> 0:11:21.410 we won't want it. Remember, they were crying in the wilderness. 0:11:21.440 --> 0:11:23.870 We tired of this manna. Man in the morning, man 0:11:23.870 --> 0:11:27.020 of corn flakes. Man of sandwiches, man a casserole. I'm 0:11:27.020 --> 0:11:29.360 tired of manna, man A fried man, a baked manna, 0:11:29.390 --> 0:11:31.370 a steamed manna. Grilled manna. 0:11:31.400 --> 0:11:32.660 I'm tired of manna. 0:11:32.660 --> 0:11:35.870 And God said, okay, I'm tired of you complaining about 0:11:35.870 --> 0:11:38.510 what I. Okay, so here's what you got me. Go on, 0:11:38.540 --> 0:11:43.100 take the meat. And it says he sent leanness. He 0:11:43.100 --> 0:11:46.429 gave them their request but sent leanness into their soul. 0:11:47.059 --> 0:11:49.910 You know what that means? That God said, since this 0:11:49.910 --> 0:11:52.700 is the decision that you want to make, then you 0:11:52.700 --> 0:11:55.670 will that will become the grid from which you make 0:11:55.670 --> 0:11:58.850 all your decisions. Oh, no. Don't. The worst thing God 0:11:58.850 --> 0:12:01.050 can do is let you have your own way. Have 0:12:01.050 --> 0:12:03.480 you learned that yet? Have you learned that yet? I 0:12:03.480 --> 0:12:06.089 have learned that painfully. The worst thing he can do 0:12:06.090 --> 0:12:10.920 is let me have what I want. And there are 0:12:10.920 --> 0:12:14.670 many of us who. Who. Hey. We okay? And I 0:12:14.670 --> 0:12:16.920 was going to say I was going to talk about that, but, 0:12:16.950 --> 0:12:19.860 I mean, there's people that are hooked up with people 0:12:19.860 --> 0:12:21.990 that they want it so bad that they wish they 0:12:21.990 --> 0:12:25.590 could get rid of them suckers now. Ooh, what did 0:12:25.590 --> 0:12:28.589 I what what was wrong with me? What was I on? 0:12:31.080 --> 0:12:35.790 What was I on? Be careful what you want. God 0:12:35.790 --> 0:12:40.620 may let you have it. So don't be like Adam 0:12:40.620 --> 0:12:43.740 and Eve. They tried to hide it. They tried to 0:12:43.740 --> 0:12:46.110 cover it. They tried to blame somebody else. It's not 0:12:46.140 --> 0:12:49.140 my fault. I can't help it. Everybody's doing it. Nobody's perfect. 0:12:49.140 --> 0:12:52.800 I was pressured into it. I didn't know it was wrong. 0:12:54.030 --> 0:12:59.670 My question would be if we didn't know it was wrong. 0:13:00.520 --> 0:13:03.580 Why do we make sure nobody was around when we 0:13:03.580 --> 0:13:07.570 did it? If we didn't know it was wrong, why 0:13:07.570 --> 0:13:10.990 did we always wait to do it at night? If 0:13:11.020 --> 0:13:14.530 we didn't. Okay. All right. I know. Hey. Can I. 0:13:14.559 --> 0:13:18.190 Can I tell you something? Anything you have to ask. 0:13:18.190 --> 0:13:22.000 Is it sin? It's sin to you. That's what the 0:13:22.000 --> 0:13:26.500 Bible says. It says whatsoever is not of faith is sin. 0:13:26.530 --> 0:13:29.890 So if I can't do it in faith, I shouldn't 0:13:29.890 --> 0:13:32.830 do it because it becomes sick. Yeah. 0:13:34.929 --> 0:13:37.210 It's convicting for some of us, isn't it? You're listening 0:13:37.240 --> 0:13:39.850 to Treasure Truth with pastor and author James Ford Jr. 0:13:39.880 --> 0:13:42.970 A message entitled Taming Temptation, and we're going to get 0:13:42.970 --> 0:13:45.310 back to this message in just one moment. I want 0:13:45.340 --> 0:13:47.740 to let you know if you're ever in the Chicago area, 0:13:47.770 --> 0:13:50.410 you can visit Christ Bible Church of Chicago and hear 0:13:50.410 --> 0:13:52.990 Pastor Ford speak live. He'll get all the info you 0:13:52.990 --> 0:13:55.210 need when you come to our website and click the 0:13:55.210 --> 0:13:57.459 about link, and we'd love for you to connect with 0:13:57.460 --> 0:14:00.290 us on social media like Facebook and Twitter. You can 0:14:00.290 --> 0:14:03.079 access our Facebook page. Leave your comments there. Even listen 0:14:03.080 --> 0:14:06.200 to today's program directly from the Facebook page. So go 0:14:06.230 --> 0:14:08.300 ahead and like us. So we show up in your newsfeed. 0:14:08.330 --> 0:14:11.090 But right now let's continue the teaching. Here again is 0:14:11.090 --> 0:14:12.170 Pastor Ford. 0:14:12.500 --> 0:14:16.010 So he wants us to understand that's Romans 1423. For 0:14:16.010 --> 0:14:18.620 those of you who need the reference, we contain temptation. 0:14:18.620 --> 0:14:24.230 If we understand and apply these principles about temptation, here's 0:14:24.230 --> 0:14:30.980 the last one. There's no exploitation. No exploitation. God guarantees 0:14:30.980 --> 0:14:35.000 the victory. Look at the word. But, but, but you know. 0:14:35.000 --> 0:14:37.340 You know what it means. The front side of me 0:14:37.340 --> 0:14:39.410 is kicked to the curb by what's on the back 0:14:39.440 --> 0:14:42.020 side of me. But. So I have a I in 0:14:42.020 --> 0:14:47.660 Ephesians two four. I'm dead. Depraved, but God. So my purpose. 0:14:47.660 --> 0:14:51.890 Genesis 512 But God meant it for good. You meant 0:14:51.890 --> 0:14:55.610 it for evil. First Corinthians two nine and ten. My perception. Uh, 0:14:55.610 --> 0:15:00.050 then Philippians 419 my prosperity. These are buts that cover 0:15:00.050 --> 0:15:05.420 my pardon, my purpose, my perception, my prosperity. Now. But 0:15:05.420 --> 0:15:08.360 God will now allow you to be tempted above. You're 0:15:08.390 --> 0:15:11.150 able to stand, but will, with the temptation make a 0:15:11.150 --> 0:15:12.860 way of escape. Here's all I want you to see. 0:15:12.860 --> 0:15:14.960 I can't go into the whole thing because I gotta 0:15:14.960 --> 0:15:17.030 be done now. But here's what he talks about. He 0:15:17.030 --> 0:15:21.230 talks about the person that says there's no expectation. God 0:15:21.230 --> 0:15:24.290 said it, that we can overcome it. That settles it. 0:15:24.290 --> 0:15:27.800 There is a way of escape. Now we gotta learn 0:15:27.800 --> 0:15:30.320 how to deal with it. So. So you holler it 0:15:30.320 --> 0:15:32.510 out real quick. Come on. I need to shut it down. 0:15:32.510 --> 0:15:34.910 But he gave us a way to deal with everything. 0:15:34.910 --> 0:15:36.890 And if we deal with it the way God says, 0:15:36.890 --> 0:15:39.560 deal with it, we've got a better chance of defeating it. 0:15:39.560 --> 0:15:44.120 So then God said that this person who said it 0:15:44.120 --> 0:15:48.110 said that we can defeat the devil. How? I said 0:15:48.110 --> 0:15:52.370 we can defeat the devil. How? Okay, we fight. The 0:15:52.370 --> 0:15:55.820 devil wears it. Found. Every Christian ought to know this. 0:15:55.850 --> 0:15:58.250 If this is the weapons, how come we don't know this? 0:15:58.250 --> 0:16:00.420 How come I say this over and over again. Write 0:16:00.420 --> 0:16:04.500 this down. Listen. The Word of God is your only hope. 0:16:06.180 --> 0:16:08.070 And so you need to know that what's what's the 0:16:08.070 --> 0:16:13.260 Bible say that James chapter four six through eight, it says, 0:16:13.260 --> 0:16:16.140 submit yourselves to God. Resist the devil, and he will 0:16:16.140 --> 0:16:18.870 flee from you. We are to do like Jesus did 0:16:18.870 --> 0:16:21.720 in Matthew four. He fought the devil. He hit him 0:16:21.720 --> 0:16:24.510 with the Word of God. It is written, it is written, 0:16:24.540 --> 0:16:26.610 it is. That's the only thing the devil is going 0:16:26.640 --> 0:16:28.500 to run from is the word. Now how are you 0:16:28.500 --> 0:16:29.010 going to feed him? 0:16:29.010 --> 0:16:30.150 And you don't know it? 0:16:32.250 --> 0:16:34.770 So he come and say, God, don't abandon you. He'll 0:16:34.770 --> 0:16:37.320 never leave me nor forsake me. I don't care how 0:16:37.320 --> 0:16:40.350 it looks. He's there. I can't see him, but he's working. 0:16:40.350 --> 0:16:43.860 I don't believe it. You're not going to get what 0:16:43.860 --> 0:16:46.590 you need. But my God shall supply all my needs. 0:16:46.590 --> 0:16:48.330 It may not come in the amount I want, the 0:16:48.330 --> 0:16:51.420 way I want, but God's going to provide. He said it. 0:16:51.420 --> 0:16:54.150 I'm just looking for it. I believe him, I trust him. 0:16:54.150 --> 0:16:59.920 I don't care what my circumstances tell me. So you 0:16:59.920 --> 0:17:02.350 fight the devil. What do you do with the flesh? 0:17:02.530 --> 0:17:07.330 You flee the flesh. Second Timothy 222. You got to get. 0:17:07.359 --> 0:17:12.100 You can't fight the flesh. And I don't know why 0:17:12.100 --> 0:17:16.930 we keep trying. You alone with somebody and maybe you even, 0:17:16.960 --> 0:17:19.780 you know, engage or whatever. Now, y'all, you done had 0:17:19.780 --> 0:17:22.090 a nice night. It's a godly night. You done ate 0:17:22.119 --> 0:17:26.740 dinner and everything. Come on up for a cup of coffee. 0:17:26.770 --> 0:17:30.370 You know doggone well it going to be more than 0:17:30.369 --> 0:17:34.900 a cup of coffee. Don't go up there. Don't. Then 0:17:34.930 --> 0:17:38.170 she going to come up? Well, let me relight the aromatherapy. Why? 0:17:38.170 --> 0:17:44.320 You want to light them candles? We're here. Put Luther on, 0:17:44.320 --> 0:17:49.060 I like that. Are you crazy? It's not. 0:17:49.060 --> 0:17:49.359 Going to. 0:17:49.359 --> 0:17:53.350 Happen. You're not going to keep yourself pure. I don't 0:17:53.350 --> 0:17:59.290 care how godly you are. The smells hitting your nostril. 0:17:59.720 --> 0:18:04.850 You looking at that woman or that man? Your eyes 0:18:04.850 --> 0:18:11.210 all filled with desire. Your heart filled with love. You say. Well, 0:18:11.210 --> 0:18:14.960 it's time to go now. God bless you. Praise the Lord. 0:18:14.960 --> 0:18:18.229 Come on, let's pray. That ain't going to happen. Alright. 0:18:18.770 --> 0:18:23.840 That ain't going to happen. You don't believe me? There's 0:18:23.840 --> 0:18:25.460 some folk who know what I'm talking about. They're just 0:18:25.460 --> 0:18:28.159 looking real holy right now. They ain't know what I'm 0:18:28.160 --> 0:18:31.580 talking about. And so it's the person. But then the 0:18:31.580 --> 0:18:35.840 promise you see in this little segment here, this little paragraph, 0:18:35.869 --> 0:18:38.000 there's a person, there's a promise. Then he talks about 0:18:38.000 --> 0:18:40.340 the parameters, then he talks about the power. And then 0:18:40.340 --> 0:18:44.000 what do we do with the world? We faith the world, 0:18:44.150 --> 0:18:45.530 love not the world, the things in the world, but 0:18:45.530 --> 0:18:47.090 all the world. Lust of the eyes, the lust of 0:18:47.090 --> 0:18:49.250 the flesh and pride of life. And these things are 0:18:49.250 --> 0:18:52.700 not of God. And he says, first John five four, 0:18:52.730 --> 0:18:56.510 this is the victory that overcomes the world, even our faith. 0:18:56.630 --> 0:19:00.119 We got different weapons for different things, and we've got 0:19:00.119 --> 0:19:03.540 to use them. So we we flee the flesh, we 0:19:03.570 --> 0:19:08.700 fight the devil, we face the world. And God says, listen, you, 0:19:08.730 --> 0:19:13.080 you've got to do this. You've got to do this. 0:19:13.260 --> 0:19:18.180 Will I close? It came out in 1985. It was 0:19:18.180 --> 0:19:24.480 called Fright Night. Roddy McDowell, Chris Sarandon and William Ragsdale. 0:19:24.840 --> 0:19:29.340 Charlie was played by Peter Vincent. And you know what 0:19:29.369 --> 0:19:35.699 took place there? Fright night was about Dracula, and he 0:19:35.700 --> 0:19:38.970 was coming after Roddy McDowell was the professor who knew 0:19:39.000 --> 0:19:42.689 how to defeat him. And he told the young man, 0:19:42.690 --> 0:19:45.570 this is how you defeat him. He, he, you know, 0:19:45.570 --> 0:19:50.399 blessed holy water, garlic and a cross. And if you've 0:19:50.400 --> 0:19:54.300 never seen it, it's a it's a it's a fascinating part. Uh, 0:19:54.300 --> 0:20:00.760 Charlie is being accosted by Dracula, And so he takes 0:20:00.760 --> 0:20:02.770 the cross and he puts it up. 0:20:02.800 --> 0:20:04.359 Low. 0:20:04.390 --> 0:20:05.200 And Dracula goes. 0:20:05.230 --> 0:20:07.990 Ah ha ha ha ha! 0:20:08.020 --> 0:20:12.310 Goes up, grabs the cross, crushes it in his face. 0:20:12.490 --> 0:20:15.669 And Roddy Mcdowall's got this look on his face like, 0:20:15.700 --> 0:20:20.110 wait a minute. Why isn't this working? And Dracula looks 0:20:20.109 --> 0:20:24.730 at him and says, you're wondering why it's not working. 0:20:24.820 --> 0:20:26.770 Because if you don't. 0:20:26.770 --> 0:20:27.609 Believe. 0:20:27.609 --> 0:20:33.970 It, it doesn't work. I came to tell somebody today. 0:20:34.480 --> 0:20:40.000 If you don't believe it, the cross doesn't work. But 0:20:40.000 --> 0:20:45.699 our victory was obtained at Calvary. So I say it 0:20:45.700 --> 0:20:48.040 all the time. We don't fight for victory. We fight 0:20:48.070 --> 0:20:52.510 from the victory that Christ won at Calvary. So then 0:20:52.510 --> 0:20:56.080 I'm crucified with Christ. Nevertheless, I live yet not I, 0:20:56.109 --> 0:20:58.330 but Christ lives in me, and the life I now 0:20:58.330 --> 0:21:00.190 live in the flesh I live by the faith of 0:21:00.190 --> 0:21:02.470 the Son of God who loved me. And so what 0:21:02.500 --> 0:21:05.590 needs to happen? I've got to get more of Christ, 0:21:05.619 --> 0:21:09.730 to feel me, to control me. Because all I want 0:21:09.760 --> 0:21:14.379 to do is act like Jesus acted when he was tempted. Well, 0:21:14.380 --> 0:21:17.530 I can't do that in my flesh. I've got to 0:21:17.530 --> 0:21:20.439 do that in my faith. So then I've got to 0:21:20.440 --> 0:21:24.430 release Jesus Christ, who is in me in all of 0:21:24.430 --> 0:21:27.550 his fullness, because he's the fullness of the Godhead bodily. 0:21:27.550 --> 0:21:30.880 And in him I am complete. That means my completeness 0:21:30.880 --> 0:21:33.820 has to do with my victory. My victory is in Christ. 0:21:33.820 --> 0:21:36.580 My joy is in Christ. My peace is in Christ. 0:21:36.580 --> 0:21:39.070 It's all in Christ. And so what I need to 0:21:39.070 --> 0:21:44.590 do is I don't need to try to tame temptation myself. 0:21:44.590 --> 0:21:50.770 It's already been tamed. It's already been defeated. What did 0:21:50.770 --> 0:21:54.340 Paul say? But thanks be to God, who gives us 0:21:54.340 --> 0:21:57.940 the victory through Jesus Christ our Lord. 0:21:59.660 --> 0:22:02.450 What a great reminder that is as we wrap up 0:22:02.450 --> 0:22:07.250 this teaching on taming temptation. The victory is ours in Christ. 0:22:07.250 --> 0:22:09.200 It's so important to keep those last two words in mind, 0:22:09.230 --> 0:22:12.980 isn't it? Well, this short series of messages from First 0:22:12.980 --> 0:22:16.040 Corinthians chapter ten are called Taming Temptation. 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