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If you 35 00:01:37,280 --> 00:01:39,880 Speaker 5: enjoy today's message, why don't you be a blessing and 36 00:01:39,920 --> 00:01:42,600 Speaker 5: share it with a friend. We appreciate you and pray 37 00:01:42,640 --> 00:01:56,840 Speaker 5: for God's very best in your life. God bless you 38 00:01:57,200 --> 00:02:00,080 Speaker 5: so joy to come into your homes. We love you, 39 00:02:00,400 --> 00:02:02,560 Speaker 5: and if you're ever in our area, I hope you'll 40 00:02:02,560 --> 00:02:04,800 Speaker 5: stop by and be a part of one of our services. 41 00:02:05,040 --> 00:02:07,640 Speaker 5: I promise you this, We'll make you feel right at home. 42 00:02:08,080 --> 00:02:10,480 Speaker 5: Thanks so much for tuning in, and thank you again 43 00:02:10,520 --> 00:02:13,160 Speaker 5: for coming out. I like to start with something funny 44 00:02:13,200 --> 00:02:16,440 Speaker 5: and I heard about this pastor. He decided to skip 45 00:02:16,520 --> 00:02:19,840 Speaker 5: church one Sunday morning and go play golf. He told 46 00:02:19,880 --> 00:02:22,840 Speaker 5: his assistant he wasn't feeling well and drove to a 47 00:02:22,840 --> 00:02:26,000 Speaker 5: golf course in another city where nobody would know him. 48 00:02:26,320 --> 00:02:29,040 Speaker 5: He teed off on the first hole and a huge 49 00:02:29,120 --> 00:02:32,360 Speaker 5: gust of wind caught his ball, carried it an extra 50 00:02:32,520 --> 00:02:35,680 Speaker 5: hundred yards, and blew it right into the hole for 51 00:02:35,760 --> 00:02:39,440 Speaker 5: a four hundred and twenty yard hole in one. An 52 00:02:39,520 --> 00:02:41,720 Speaker 5: angel looked at God and said, what'd you do that for? 53 00:02:42,360 --> 00:02:47,200 Speaker 5: God smiled and said, who's he going to tell? All right, 54 00:02:47,280 --> 00:02:49,600 Speaker 5: hold up your bibles. Say it like you mean it. 55 00:02:50,080 --> 00:02:52,880 Speaker 5: This is my Bible. I am what it says I am. 56 00:02:53,360 --> 00:02:55,600 Speaker 5: I have what it says I have. I can do 57 00:02:55,720 --> 00:02:58,240 Speaker 5: what it says I can do. Today I will be 58 00:02:58,320 --> 00:03:02,120 Speaker 5: taught the word of God. I boldly confess. My mind 59 00:03:02,240 --> 00:03:05,320 Speaker 5: is alert, my heart is receptive. I will never be 60 00:03:05,400 --> 00:03:09,720 Speaker 5: the same. In Jesus' name, God bless you. I want 61 00:03:09,720 --> 00:03:14,280 Speaker 5: to talk to you today about resisting temptation. No matter 62 00:03:14,320 --> 00:03:16,960 Speaker 5: how good of a person you are, how much you 63 00:03:17,000 --> 00:03:21,560 Speaker 5: want to do what's right, temptation will come. It's important 64 00:03:21,600 --> 00:03:24,720 Speaker 5: to recognize the areas that you're tempted in. 65 00:03:25,120 --> 00:03:26,520 Speaker 4: It's different for every person. 66 00:03:27,320 --> 00:03:30,639 Speaker 5: You need to take inventory of your life, be honest 67 00:03:30,680 --> 00:03:33,880 Speaker 5: with yourself and say, Okay, this is an area that 68 00:03:33,960 --> 00:03:36,800 Speaker 5: I struggle in. This is an area that I need 69 00:03:36,880 --> 00:03:40,520 Speaker 5: to stay in guard. What keeps many people from being 70 00:03:40,640 --> 00:03:45,119 Speaker 5: free is they live in denial. I read where seventy 71 00:03:45,160 --> 00:03:49,440 Speaker 5: percent of alcoholics don't think they have a problem with alcohol. 72 00:03:50,200 --> 00:03:53,400 Speaker 5: If you're not honest with yourself, it'll be very difficult 73 00:03:53,640 --> 00:03:54,360 Speaker 5: to be free. 74 00:03:55,160 --> 00:03:56,560 Speaker 4: You need to know yourself. 75 00:03:57,240 --> 00:04:00,320 Speaker 5: If you're tempted to watch things that you shouldn't, get 76 00:04:00,320 --> 00:04:03,200 Speaker 5: it out on the table, say God, here's an area 77 00:04:03,320 --> 00:04:05,720 Speaker 5: that I need to improve in. If you have a 78 00:04:05,760 --> 00:04:09,320 Speaker 5: problem with being impatient, a problem with spending money, you 79 00:04:09,320 --> 00:04:13,240 Speaker 5: don't have a problem with drugs or alcohol. The first 80 00:04:13,280 --> 00:04:17,440 Speaker 5: step to being free is to identify what's holding you back. 81 00:04:18,400 --> 00:04:22,560 Speaker 5: You cannot conquer what you will not confront as long 82 00:04:22,600 --> 00:04:25,240 Speaker 5: as you're downplaying it, trying to hide it, act like 83 00:04:25,279 --> 00:04:26,880 Speaker 5: it's not there, it's not going. 84 00:04:26,720 --> 00:04:28,080 Speaker 4: To go away. 85 00:04:28,160 --> 00:04:32,120 Speaker 5: Ignoring the enemy doesn't make him leave you alone. He 86 00:04:32,200 --> 00:04:35,000 Speaker 5: already knows the area of your greatest weakness. 87 00:04:35,279 --> 00:04:38,160 Speaker 4: You should know it as well. Not to go around. 88 00:04:38,000 --> 00:04:41,599 Speaker 5: Feeling bad about yourself, but so you can stay especially 89 00:04:41,640 --> 00:04:42,159 Speaker 5: on guard. 90 00:04:43,080 --> 00:04:45,120 Speaker 4: The scripture says in Hebrews. 91 00:04:45,080 --> 00:04:49,360 Speaker 5: Let us lay aside the weights and the sin that 92 00:04:49,440 --> 00:04:53,520 Speaker 5: does so easily beset us. Notice it says the sin 93 00:04:54,360 --> 00:04:58,800 Speaker 5: it infers that every person has one thing they have 94 00:04:58,880 --> 00:05:03,760 Speaker 5: to specifically deal with. I call it a persistent temptation. 95 00:05:04,680 --> 00:05:08,080 Speaker 5: Whenever you try to move forward, the same temper, the 96 00:05:08,080 --> 00:05:11,400 Speaker 5: same self pity, the same addiction, the same. 97 00:05:11,120 --> 00:05:13,440 Speaker 4: Compromise is there to try to hold you back. 98 00:05:14,320 --> 00:05:17,440 Speaker 5: Some people, every time they're about to be promoted, the 99 00:05:17,560 --> 00:05:21,320 Speaker 5: same problem with their mouth gets them in trouble, speaking 100 00:05:21,400 --> 00:05:24,640 Speaker 5: their mind, saying things that they shouldn't. If they would 101 00:05:24,680 --> 00:05:28,560 Speaker 5: just get honest with themselves and say, God, this problem 102 00:05:28,600 --> 00:05:32,320 Speaker 5: with my mouth is so easily besetting me. I'm going 103 00:05:32,360 --> 00:05:35,760 Speaker 5: to get serious and deal with it. When you get honest, 104 00:05:35,960 --> 00:05:38,960 Speaker 5: God will help you to come up higher. Don't go 105 00:05:39,120 --> 00:05:42,640 Speaker 5: the next twenty years letting the same bad attitude, the 106 00:05:42,680 --> 00:05:46,600 Speaker 5: same temptation, the same compromise keep you from moving forward. 107 00:05:47,520 --> 00:05:50,560 Speaker 5: I know this lady. She was hurt in a relationship. 108 00:05:50,760 --> 00:05:53,520 Speaker 5: This was more than twenty years ago. This man did 109 00:05:53,560 --> 00:05:57,600 Speaker 5: her wrong. Now every time she's about to get serious 110 00:05:57,680 --> 00:06:01,240 Speaker 5: in another relationship with a good man, a loving man, 111 00:06:01,279 --> 00:06:05,240 Speaker 5: a kind man. That same fear of being hurt again 112 00:06:05,760 --> 00:06:09,320 Speaker 5: rises up the same thoughts. You're making a big mistake. 113 00:06:09,800 --> 00:06:12,120 Speaker 5: He's going to leave you. You can't trust men. 114 00:06:12,160 --> 00:06:13,000 Speaker 4: They're all the same. 115 00:06:14,040 --> 00:06:17,440 Speaker 5: Until she gets honest and deals with that fear, she's 116 00:06:17,480 --> 00:06:19,719 Speaker 5: not going to have happy relationships. 117 00:06:20,480 --> 00:06:22,040 Speaker 4: What is that one. 118 00:06:21,720 --> 00:06:25,920 Speaker 5: Thing that can easily beset you? What is that persistent 119 00:06:26,040 --> 00:06:31,000 Speaker 5: temptation that you struggle with? Identify what it is. Here's 120 00:06:31,040 --> 00:06:34,679 Speaker 5: the good news. The enemy doesn't have any new tricks. 121 00:06:35,520 --> 00:06:39,039 Speaker 5: Once you recognize what that one thing is and learn 122 00:06:39,080 --> 00:06:42,200 Speaker 5: how to defeat it, you can overcome it your whole lifetime. 123 00:06:43,200 --> 00:06:47,080 Speaker 5: Two Peter two nineteen says you are a slave to 124 00:06:47,160 --> 00:06:50,240 Speaker 5: whatever controls you. You can be a slave to a 125 00:06:50,279 --> 00:06:54,200 Speaker 5: bad attitude, a slave to worry, a slave to lust, 126 00:06:54,320 --> 00:06:57,760 Speaker 5: a slave to food. In the scope of your destiny, 127 00:06:58,160 --> 00:06:59,760 Speaker 5: it's a small thing. 128 00:07:00,080 --> 00:07:01,760 Speaker 4: To let a bad temper control you. 129 00:07:02,400 --> 00:07:06,599 Speaker 5: It's a small thing to let fear or worry control you. 130 00:07:06,600 --> 00:07:11,040 Speaker 5: Your destiny is too great, your assignment is too important, 131 00:07:11,560 --> 00:07:15,120 Speaker 5: your future is too bright to let something small hold 132 00:07:15,200 --> 00:07:15,640 Speaker 5: you back. 133 00:07:16,320 --> 00:07:18,360 Speaker 4: You've got to make up your mind. This is a 134 00:07:18,360 --> 00:07:18,880 Speaker 4: new day. 135 00:07:19,520 --> 00:07:21,720 Speaker 5: You're not going to keep giving in to the same 136 00:07:22,000 --> 00:07:23,160 Speaker 5: old temptations. 137 00:07:23,480 --> 00:07:24,400 Speaker 4: You know what they are. 138 00:07:25,080 --> 00:07:28,200 Speaker 5: The enemy doesn't have any new tricks. It's going to 139 00:07:28,200 --> 00:07:31,640 Speaker 5: be the same thing year after year. But if you'll 140 00:07:31,680 --> 00:07:35,760 Speaker 5: dig your heels in, put your foot down, the temptation 141 00:07:36,040 --> 00:07:38,320 Speaker 5: may not go away, but God will give you the 142 00:07:38,320 --> 00:07:41,120 Speaker 5: strength to overcome it. You don't have to be a 143 00:07:41,160 --> 00:07:44,120 Speaker 5: slave to self pity, a slave to a bad attitude, 144 00:07:44,160 --> 00:07:47,960 Speaker 5: a slave to an addiction. God created us to be free, 145 00:07:48,520 --> 00:07:52,720 Speaker 5: not partially free, but totally free. I'm asking us to 146 00:07:52,760 --> 00:07:56,080 Speaker 5: get rid of that one thing that can easily beset us. 147 00:07:56,960 --> 00:07:58,160 Speaker 4: I know a pastor friend. 148 00:07:58,440 --> 00:08:01,880 Speaker 5: When he was twelve years old, he started smoking, hiding 149 00:08:01,920 --> 00:08:04,960 Speaker 5: in his house, not letting his parents know. By the 150 00:08:04,960 --> 00:08:08,760 Speaker 5: time he was fourteen, he was totally hooked. This young 151 00:08:08,800 --> 00:08:13,120 Speaker 5: man had an incredible gift to minister from an early age. 152 00:08:13,200 --> 00:08:17,240 Speaker 5: He was extremely anointed and powerful. He could preach these 153 00:08:17,280 --> 00:08:20,760 Speaker 5: amazing sermons. He would fill in at the local church. 154 00:08:21,360 --> 00:08:23,680 Speaker 5: The whole time he had to hide the fact that 155 00:08:23,760 --> 00:08:28,800 Speaker 5: he smoked. His mentor and elderly gentleman was the pastor there. 156 00:08:29,360 --> 00:08:32,200 Speaker 5: The pastor knew that he smoked. He didn't condemn him, 157 00:08:32,200 --> 00:08:35,600 Speaker 5: he didn't chew him out. He simply said, son, I 158 00:08:35,720 --> 00:08:39,559 Speaker 5: believe that God wants to take you a long, long way, 159 00:08:40,400 --> 00:08:44,320 Speaker 5: and that cigarette sure is a small thing to keep 160 00:08:44,360 --> 00:08:47,720 Speaker 5: you from where God wants you to go. That one 161 00:08:47,760 --> 00:08:50,480 Speaker 5: statement broke a stronghold in his mind. 162 00:08:51,120 --> 00:08:52,520 Speaker 4: He had a new perspective. 163 00:08:52,880 --> 00:08:57,000 Speaker 5: His attitude was, my destiny is too great to let 164 00:08:57,040 --> 00:09:00,679 Speaker 5: something small hold me back. He changed him his mind. 165 00:09:01,160 --> 00:09:04,160 Speaker 5: When you change your mind, you can change your life. 166 00:09:04,760 --> 00:09:05,160 Speaker 4: Today. 167 00:09:05,320 --> 00:09:08,240 Speaker 5: He has a ministry that touches the world. But think 168 00:09:08,280 --> 00:09:10,680 Speaker 5: about what he could have missed out on if he 169 00:09:10,679 --> 00:09:14,559 Speaker 5: would have let a small thing hold him back. Whatever 170 00:09:14,600 --> 00:09:18,800 Speaker 5: that one thing is, maybe pride, jealousy, bad attitude, addiction, 171 00:09:19,240 --> 00:09:20,760 Speaker 5: it's a small thing. 172 00:09:20,760 --> 00:09:23,120 Speaker 4: To keep you from the amazing future. 173 00:09:22,840 --> 00:09:27,079 Speaker 5: God has in store. How do we resist temptation? Jesus 174 00:09:27,080 --> 00:09:30,920 Speaker 5: said in Matthew twenty six forty one. Pray that you 175 00:09:31,080 --> 00:09:36,160 Speaker 5: don't enter into the temptation. Notice he didn't say, pray 176 00:09:36,320 --> 00:09:39,640 Speaker 5: that you'll never be tempted. God, please don't let me 177 00:09:39,679 --> 00:09:42,200 Speaker 5: have a negative thought. God, please don't ever let me 178 00:09:42,240 --> 00:09:45,800 Speaker 5: have a wrong desire. That's not realistic, he said, Pray 179 00:09:46,280 --> 00:09:51,240 Speaker 5: that you don't enter into the temptation. The reason many 180 00:09:51,280 --> 00:09:54,640 Speaker 5: people keep giving in to the same thing year after 181 00:09:54,760 --> 00:09:59,720 Speaker 5: year is because they never ask God for his health. Listen, 182 00:10:00,080 --> 00:10:02,720 Speaker 5: can't overcome temptation on our own. 183 00:10:03,559 --> 00:10:05,040 Speaker 4: You can't resist. 184 00:10:04,640 --> 00:10:08,960 Speaker 5: That desire to compromise all by yourself. We can't break 185 00:10:09,000 --> 00:10:10,760 Speaker 5: addictions in our own strength. 186 00:10:11,040 --> 00:10:12,360 Speaker 4: We need God's help. 187 00:10:13,040 --> 00:10:16,160 Speaker 5: When you humble yourself and say, God, I don't want 188 00:10:16,160 --> 00:10:19,280 Speaker 5: to be critical and sour, help me to have a 189 00:10:19,280 --> 00:10:20,760 Speaker 5: good attitude. 190 00:10:20,840 --> 00:10:23,079 Speaker 4: God in my mouth keeps getting me into trouble. 191 00:10:23,480 --> 00:10:25,920 Speaker 5: Help me to bite my tongue and not say things 192 00:10:25,920 --> 00:10:28,600 Speaker 5: that I shouldn't. God, I don't want to watch the 193 00:10:28,640 --> 00:10:31,160 Speaker 5: wrong things. I don't want to pollute my mind. God, 194 00:10:31,360 --> 00:10:35,439 Speaker 5: help me to resist this temptation. If you ask God 195 00:10:35,480 --> 00:10:37,080 Speaker 5: to help you, he'll give. 196 00:10:36,960 --> 00:10:38,240 Speaker 4: You the strength to overcome. 197 00:10:39,400 --> 00:10:43,320 Speaker 5: The scripture says the spirit is willing, but the flesh 198 00:10:43,600 --> 00:10:47,080 Speaker 5: is weak. We have good intentions, we want to do 199 00:10:47,120 --> 00:10:50,600 Speaker 5: the right thing. I have no doubt if you struggle 200 00:10:50,640 --> 00:10:53,720 Speaker 5: with an addiction, if you could, you would give that up. 201 00:10:54,280 --> 00:10:57,920 Speaker 5: You would give up being impatient, give up compromising. The 202 00:10:58,040 --> 00:11:01,360 Speaker 5: spirit is willing, but it's not enough to just have 203 00:11:01,480 --> 00:11:05,360 Speaker 5: the desire. You have to pray so that your spirit 204 00:11:05,480 --> 00:11:06,679 Speaker 5: man will get. 205 00:11:06,440 --> 00:11:08,319 Speaker 4: Stronger in that area. 206 00:11:08,559 --> 00:11:11,440 Speaker 5: If you can get your inner man stronger than your 207 00:11:11,480 --> 00:11:14,840 Speaker 5: outer man. You will resist the temptation every single time. 208 00:11:15,679 --> 00:11:16,320 Speaker 4: Here's the key. 209 00:11:16,840 --> 00:11:19,520 Speaker 5: Don't wait till you're in the middle of the temptation 210 00:11:19,960 --> 00:11:21,360 Speaker 5: to ask God for his help. 211 00:11:21,800 --> 00:11:22,720 Speaker 4: Pray ahead of time. 212 00:11:23,600 --> 00:11:25,800 Speaker 5: If you've got a problem with your temper when you 213 00:11:25,840 --> 00:11:29,080 Speaker 5: get up in the morning, before you leave the house, God, 214 00:11:29,120 --> 00:11:31,840 Speaker 5: I'm asking you to help me to control my temper today. 215 00:11:32,320 --> 00:11:35,040 Speaker 5: God help me to stay calm and not give in 216 00:11:35,080 --> 00:11:38,800 Speaker 5: to the temptation to get upset. See don't wait till 217 00:11:38,800 --> 00:11:41,360 Speaker 5: you're in the heat of the battle and your emotions 218 00:11:41,360 --> 00:11:43,880 Speaker 5: are high and your passions are out of control. Pray 219 00:11:43,920 --> 00:11:47,880 Speaker 5: ahead of time. Get your inner man stronger. Maybe you're 220 00:11:47,920 --> 00:11:51,240 Speaker 5: trying to lose weight, be more disciplined in your eating. 221 00:11:51,760 --> 00:11:53,920 Speaker 5: Or you can't wait till you're at the mall and 222 00:11:54,000 --> 00:11:58,280 Speaker 5: you smell the cinnamon rolls in the air. Three people 223 00:11:58,320 --> 00:12:01,280 Speaker 5: walk by with an ice cream Sunday, your two friends 224 00:12:01,280 --> 00:12:03,320 Speaker 5: are going to get a fudge bar. By that time, 225 00:12:03,360 --> 00:12:05,679 Speaker 5: it's too late. You'll think, Let me just eat and 226 00:12:05,720 --> 00:12:09,680 Speaker 5: I'll repent later. Now, pray ahead of time when you 227 00:12:09,720 --> 00:12:11,760 Speaker 5: get up in the morning, Father, help me to be 228 00:12:11,800 --> 00:12:13,280 Speaker 5: disciplined in my eating today. 229 00:12:13,600 --> 00:12:15,440 Speaker 4: God help me to stay focused. 230 00:12:15,880 --> 00:12:18,760 Speaker 5: You've got to get your inner man built up and 231 00:12:18,840 --> 00:12:23,360 Speaker 5: develop this reservoir of strength. So when that temptation comes, 232 00:12:23,480 --> 00:12:27,640 Speaker 5: you're so prayed up, you're so strong, so disciplined, so focused. 233 00:12:27,320 --> 00:12:28,640 Speaker 4: You'll be able to resist it. 234 00:12:29,440 --> 00:12:32,520 Speaker 5: And when you know something is going to be more difficult, 235 00:12:32,920 --> 00:12:35,959 Speaker 5: you need to make sure you get prayed up. If 236 00:12:35,960 --> 00:12:40,600 Speaker 5: you come home every Monday stressed out, irritable to your family, 237 00:12:40,800 --> 00:12:43,400 Speaker 5: then you need to start praying on Friday, on Saturday, 238 00:12:43,440 --> 00:12:46,040 Speaker 5: and on Sunday. God help me to not give in 239 00:12:46,320 --> 00:12:49,560 Speaker 5: to the pressure to get stressed out on Monday. If 240 00:12:49,600 --> 00:12:52,079 Speaker 5: you know your mother in law's coming in this Christmas, 241 00:12:52,160 --> 00:12:52,560 Speaker 5: you need to. 242 00:12:52,559 --> 00:12:56,400 Speaker 4: Start praying right now. And I have a great mother 243 00:12:56,440 --> 00:12:59,800 Speaker 4: in law. It's the daughter I have a problem with. 244 00:13:03,120 --> 00:13:06,520 Speaker 5: If you struggle with depression, don't wait till you've been 245 00:13:06,520 --> 00:13:09,160 Speaker 5: depressed for three days to ask God for his health. 246 00:13:09,679 --> 00:13:13,480 Speaker 5: Now on your good days, when you're encouraged, when you're happy. 247 00:13:13,760 --> 00:13:17,400 Speaker 5: God help me to resist the temptation to get depressed. 248 00:13:17,640 --> 00:13:21,000 Speaker 5: God help me to control my thought life and stay happy, 249 00:13:21,200 --> 00:13:24,880 Speaker 5: hopeful and positive. Pray ahead of time. It's like this 250 00:13:25,080 --> 00:13:28,360 Speaker 5: man I heard about. He said, God, so far I've 251 00:13:28,360 --> 00:13:32,920 Speaker 5: done well today. I haven't lied, cheated, or gossiped. I 252 00:13:32,960 --> 00:13:38,320 Speaker 5: haven't lost my temper, been rude, grumpy, angry, selfish, or nasty. 253 00:13:38,720 --> 00:13:41,280 Speaker 5: But God, I'm going to need your help today because 254 00:13:41,320 --> 00:13:45,400 Speaker 5: I'm about to get out of bed this morning. Pray 255 00:13:45,440 --> 00:13:49,240 Speaker 5: ahead of time, and God will help you. Jesus was 256 00:13:49,280 --> 00:13:52,840 Speaker 5: about to be crucified. He knew there were difficult times 257 00:13:52,840 --> 00:13:55,679 Speaker 5: of ahead where he would be tempted to get discouraged 258 00:13:55,720 --> 00:13:56,320 Speaker 5: and give up. 259 00:13:56,520 --> 00:13:57,200 Speaker 4: What did he do? 260 00:13:57,600 --> 00:14:01,360 Speaker 5: He prayed, Father, if you will take this cup from me. 261 00:14:01,800 --> 00:14:05,120 Speaker 4: But not my will, let your will be done here. 262 00:14:05,160 --> 00:14:08,280 Speaker 5: He was the son of God, yet he was saying, Father, 263 00:14:08,679 --> 00:14:10,199 Speaker 5: I can't do this on my own. 264 00:14:10,640 --> 00:14:13,040 Speaker 4: I'm tempted to not go through with it. I need 265 00:14:13,080 --> 00:14:13,720 Speaker 4: your strength. 266 00:14:14,360 --> 00:14:18,520 Speaker 5: The scripture says after he prayed, the angels came and 267 00:14:18,600 --> 00:14:22,120 Speaker 5: strengthened him. If you will pray and ask God to 268 00:14:22,200 --> 00:14:25,760 Speaker 5: help you resist, he will send his angels to strengthen 269 00:14:25,800 --> 00:14:29,680 Speaker 5: you as well. This is what David did twice in 270 00:14:29,720 --> 00:14:33,600 Speaker 5: the Psalms. He asked God to help him control his mouth. 271 00:14:34,280 --> 00:14:38,400 Speaker 5: He was focused, disciplined, a great leader, yet maybe this 272 00:14:38,640 --> 00:14:39,880 Speaker 5: was the one thing. 273 00:14:40,080 --> 00:14:41,720 Speaker 4: That could easily beset him. 274 00:14:42,160 --> 00:14:45,760 Speaker 5: He said, God put a watch over my mouth, he 275 00:14:45,920 --> 00:14:50,160 Speaker 5: asked God, and God helped him to overcome. In that area, 276 00:14:50,360 --> 00:14:54,080 Speaker 5: Jesus said to Peter, I'm about to be crucified. You're 277 00:14:54,080 --> 00:14:56,920 Speaker 5: going to be tempted to deny me. Peter, you need 278 00:14:56,960 --> 00:15:00,600 Speaker 5: to pray so you don't give into this temptation. Well, 279 00:15:00,640 --> 00:15:03,160 Speaker 5: it was late in the day, Peter was tired, he 280 00:15:03,200 --> 00:15:04,160 Speaker 5: didn't feel like praying. 281 00:15:04,720 --> 00:15:06,280 Speaker 4: Plus, Peter was proud. 282 00:15:06,880 --> 00:15:08,720 Speaker 5: He thought he could do it in his own strength. 283 00:15:09,320 --> 00:15:11,720 Speaker 5: He said, in a fact, Jesus, I don't need to pray. 284 00:15:12,560 --> 00:15:15,120 Speaker 4: I'm your friend. I'm not going to deny you. I'll 285 00:15:15,160 --> 00:15:18,440 Speaker 4: be with you through thick and thin. You know the story. 286 00:15:18,480 --> 00:15:22,920 Speaker 5: A few hours later, when the soldiers questioned him, he denied. 287 00:15:22,720 --> 00:15:23,720 Speaker 4: That he knew Jesus. 288 00:15:24,440 --> 00:15:27,200 Speaker 5: But I wonder what would have happened if he would 289 00:15:27,200 --> 00:15:30,240 Speaker 5: have taken time to pray. I wonder if he'd have 290 00:15:30,320 --> 00:15:33,880 Speaker 5: just done like David and say God, I need. 291 00:15:33,520 --> 00:15:34,520 Speaker 4: Your help today. 292 00:15:35,240 --> 00:15:38,520 Speaker 5: I believe it would have been a different story if 293 00:15:38,640 --> 00:15:42,000 Speaker 5: Jesus thought it was necessary to pray and ask God 294 00:15:42,040 --> 00:15:45,240 Speaker 5: for strength. If he told us to pray so we 295 00:15:45,320 --> 00:15:49,040 Speaker 5: don't enter into temptation, that tells me this should be 296 00:15:49,080 --> 00:15:52,600 Speaker 5: a part of our everyday life some of you. The 297 00:15:52,640 --> 00:15:55,360 Speaker 5: only reason you keep giving in to the same thing 298 00:15:55,400 --> 00:15:58,600 Speaker 5: again and again is you're not asking God for his help. 299 00:15:59,400 --> 00:16:01,480 Speaker 5: But when you do like Peter and you think you 300 00:16:01,520 --> 00:16:04,160 Speaker 5: can do it on your own, God will just step back. 301 00:16:04,920 --> 00:16:08,560 Speaker 5: But when you humble yourself and say, God, I need 302 00:16:08,600 --> 00:16:12,680 Speaker 5: your help today. God help me to not compromise. God 303 00:16:12,720 --> 00:16:15,480 Speaker 5: help me to not let my eyes wander. God help 304 00:16:15,560 --> 00:16:18,560 Speaker 5: me to be disciplined in my eating. When you ask 305 00:16:18,640 --> 00:16:21,560 Speaker 5: God for his help, God will send the angels to 306 00:16:21,600 --> 00:16:26,000 Speaker 5: strengthen you. I know this young lady. She's been addicted 307 00:16:26,040 --> 00:16:29,800 Speaker 5: to cocaine for eleven years, but the last ninety two 308 00:16:29,960 --> 00:16:33,520 Speaker 5: days she's been clean. That's the longest that she's ever stopped. 309 00:16:35,520 --> 00:16:38,240 Speaker 5: I asked her how she was doing it. She told 310 00:16:38,320 --> 00:16:40,840 Speaker 5: how she got some new friends, got rid of the 311 00:16:40,840 --> 00:16:43,240 Speaker 5: people dragging her down, got people that will pulled her up, 312 00:16:43,280 --> 00:16:46,080 Speaker 5: and she quit thinking that she couldn't do it and 313 00:16:46,120 --> 00:16:48,640 Speaker 5: started to say it, I can do all things through Christ. 314 00:16:49,120 --> 00:16:51,920 Speaker 5: Then she said, Joel, I get up every morning and 315 00:16:52,000 --> 00:16:55,640 Speaker 5: say God, I need you today. I need your strength, 316 00:16:56,120 --> 00:16:58,480 Speaker 5: I need your discipline, I need your grace. 317 00:16:58,760 --> 00:17:01,360 Speaker 4: God help me resist this temptation. 318 00:17:02,320 --> 00:17:05,720 Speaker 5: When you acknowledge God as the source of your strength. 319 00:17:06,320 --> 00:17:09,160 Speaker 5: You will have a power to resist that you've never 320 00:17:09,200 --> 00:17:12,560 Speaker 5: felt before. Now, I wonder how much more victory we 321 00:17:12,560 --> 00:17:15,040 Speaker 5: would walk in if we just get up every morning 322 00:17:15,280 --> 00:17:18,720 Speaker 5: and say, Father, help me to not lose my temper. God, 323 00:17:18,800 --> 00:17:20,720 Speaker 5: help me to not compromise, help me. 324 00:17:20,680 --> 00:17:21,560 Speaker 4: To stand strong. 325 00:17:22,280 --> 00:17:24,600 Speaker 5: Pray ahead of time, get your inner man built up. 326 00:17:25,080 --> 00:17:29,280 Speaker 5: And then number two very important, don't put yourself in 327 00:17:29,400 --> 00:17:34,040 Speaker 5: situations where you know you're going to be tempted. You 328 00:17:34,080 --> 00:17:36,439 Speaker 5: can't pray and ask God to help you overcome an 329 00:17:36,440 --> 00:17:40,400 Speaker 5: addiction and then go hang out with people that enable you. 330 00:17:41,040 --> 00:17:45,399 Speaker 5: The scripture says, run from temptation. If you're trying to 331 00:17:45,400 --> 00:17:48,439 Speaker 5: break that spirit of alcohol. Don't go party with your 332 00:17:48,440 --> 00:17:52,080 Speaker 5: buddies after work. Well, Joel, I'm just there for the company. 333 00:17:52,240 --> 00:17:54,359 Speaker 5: I'm just there to visit. I'm not gonna drink. No, 334 00:17:54,480 --> 00:17:57,040 Speaker 5: if you play with fire, you're gonna get burned. If 335 00:17:57,080 --> 00:18:00,119 Speaker 5: you hang around the beehive, you're gonna get stung. If 336 00:18:00,119 --> 00:18:02,640 Speaker 5: you stay at the barber shop long enough, eventually you'll 337 00:18:02,640 --> 00:18:08,000 Speaker 5: get a haircut. Get out of that environment. Run from temptation. 338 00:18:09,280 --> 00:18:12,680 Speaker 5: If your friends are not going anywhere, find some new friends. 339 00:18:13,200 --> 00:18:16,679 Speaker 5: If they're pulling you down, causing you to compromise. You 340 00:18:16,720 --> 00:18:19,080 Speaker 5: can pray all day long for God to help you, 341 00:18:19,480 --> 00:18:22,560 Speaker 5: but until you separate yourself, it's not going to do 342 00:18:22,640 --> 00:18:26,280 Speaker 5: any good. I read about this young lady. She really 343 00:18:26,400 --> 00:18:28,920 Speaker 5: liked this young man, but all he wanted to do 344 00:18:29,080 --> 00:18:32,840 Speaker 5: was party and compromise. He wasn't going anywhere, he didn't 345 00:18:32,880 --> 00:18:35,399 Speaker 5: have any goals. She tried to get him to come 346 00:18:35,440 --> 00:18:36,880 Speaker 5: to church again and again. 347 00:18:36,680 --> 00:18:37,520 Speaker 4: But he wouldn't come. 348 00:18:38,160 --> 00:18:41,080 Speaker 5: Finally, she looked at him and said, listen, if you're 349 00:18:41,080 --> 00:18:42,560 Speaker 5: not going to go to heaven. 350 00:18:42,280 --> 00:18:44,440 Speaker 4: With me, then I'm not going to go to hell 351 00:18:44,520 --> 00:18:44,880 Speaker 4: with you. 352 00:18:45,880 --> 00:18:49,080 Speaker 5: And if you're going to get free and break loose 353 00:18:50,000 --> 00:18:54,359 Speaker 5: of that one thing that can hold you back, you 354 00:18:54,480 --> 00:18:58,040 Speaker 5: may have to take what seems like are drastic measures. 355 00:18:58,880 --> 00:19:01,560 Speaker 5: You may have to change friends if you're going to 356 00:19:01,600 --> 00:19:05,120 Speaker 5: stay faithful in your marriage. If all your friends run 357 00:19:05,119 --> 00:19:09,600 Speaker 5: around on their spouse, listen, spirits are transferable. You hang 358 00:19:09,640 --> 00:19:11,920 Speaker 5: out with them long enough, and you too are going 359 00:19:11,960 --> 00:19:14,639 Speaker 5: to be tempted to compromise. You hang out with a 360 00:19:14,760 --> 00:19:17,760 Speaker 5: jealous person long enough, and you'll end up jealous and 361 00:19:17,800 --> 00:19:18,840 Speaker 5: critical and sour. 362 00:19:19,320 --> 00:19:21,480 Speaker 4: Put yourself in a different environment. 363 00:19:22,080 --> 00:19:24,960 Speaker 5: I know people the only thing that's keeping them from 364 00:19:25,040 --> 00:19:28,720 Speaker 5: rising higher, the only thing that's keeping them from resisting 365 00:19:28,760 --> 00:19:33,040 Speaker 5: that temptation, is the people they are choosing to associate with. 366 00:19:33,920 --> 00:19:37,159 Speaker 5: I learned a long time ago some people, the less 367 00:19:37,240 --> 00:19:39,840 Speaker 5: time you spend with them, the better off you're going 368 00:19:39,880 --> 00:19:43,720 Speaker 5: to be. You have to ask yourself, these people that 369 00:19:43,800 --> 00:19:47,520 Speaker 5: are dragging me down, causing me to compromise, are they 370 00:19:47,640 --> 00:19:52,360 Speaker 5: worth me missing my divine destiny over? In the scripture, 371 00:19:52,800 --> 00:19:55,359 Speaker 5: Joseph worked for a man by the name of potterphar 372 00:19:55,760 --> 00:19:58,280 Speaker 5: He was in charge of his house. He was being 373 00:19:58,320 --> 00:20:02,520 Speaker 5: his best, minding his own own business. But Potterford's wife 374 00:20:02,800 --> 00:20:04,200 Speaker 5: tried to seduce Joseph. 375 00:20:04,760 --> 00:20:05,560 Speaker 4: Day after day. 376 00:20:05,640 --> 00:20:09,119 Speaker 5: She kept making advances toward him, letting him know that 377 00:20:09,200 --> 00:20:12,480 Speaker 5: she was interested. But Joseph was a young man of 378 00:20:12,560 --> 00:20:17,120 Speaker 5: great character, He had great integrity. His attitude was this 379 00:20:17,200 --> 00:20:20,640 Speaker 5: woman is not worth me missing my divine destiny over. 380 00:20:21,320 --> 00:20:24,800 Speaker 5: I can imagine he got up every morning and prayed, God, 381 00:20:25,000 --> 00:20:28,280 Speaker 5: help me to stand strong, help me to resist this temptation. 382 00:20:28,960 --> 00:20:30,440 Speaker 4: But he not only prayed. 383 00:20:30,920 --> 00:20:35,400 Speaker 5: The scripture says she kept pursuing him, but Joseph did 384 00:20:35,440 --> 00:20:36,600 Speaker 5: his best. 385 00:20:36,359 --> 00:20:40,040 Speaker 4: To avoid her. There's another key to resisting temptation. 386 00:20:40,600 --> 00:20:44,800 Speaker 5: Avoid the wrong people, avoid the wrong places, avoid the 387 00:20:44,800 --> 00:20:48,560 Speaker 5: wrong channels. Joseph went out of his way to stay 388 00:20:48,560 --> 00:20:52,879 Speaker 5: out of her path. If she came inside, he went outside. 389 00:20:52,960 --> 00:20:56,119 Speaker 5: If she came outside, he would go run errands. He 390 00:20:56,119 --> 00:20:59,399 Speaker 5: didn't think I'm so strong, I'm invincible. He knew he 391 00:20:59,520 --> 00:21:03,640 Speaker 5: was foul, so he did what he could to stay away. Well, 392 00:21:03,640 --> 00:21:07,680 Speaker 5: one day, just so happened, everybody was gone. Potterpher wasn't there. 393 00:21:08,200 --> 00:21:11,920 Speaker 5: She came into the room where Joseph was working, grabbed 394 00:21:12,000 --> 00:21:14,880 Speaker 5: him by the arm, and tried to pull him to her. 395 00:21:15,600 --> 00:21:21,480 Speaker 5: But the scripture says, Joseph tore himself away. Notice the determination, 396 00:21:21,840 --> 00:21:26,320 Speaker 5: Notice the persistence. He tore himself away. And when he did, 397 00:21:26,720 --> 00:21:29,120 Speaker 5: she ripped his coat right off of him. 398 00:21:29,760 --> 00:21:33,040 Speaker 4: He didn't care. He took off running without his coat. 399 00:21:34,200 --> 00:21:37,760 Speaker 5: Sometimes in order to resist temptation, you're going to have 400 00:21:37,800 --> 00:21:40,919 Speaker 5: to leave your coat. In other words, you may have 401 00:21:41,000 --> 00:21:44,680 Speaker 5: to give up something to keep from compromising. You may 402 00:21:44,720 --> 00:21:48,040 Speaker 5: have to give up playing ball with the guys if 403 00:21:48,080 --> 00:21:50,920 Speaker 5: you can't resist partying with him after the game. 404 00:21:51,840 --> 00:21:53,640 Speaker 4: You may have to give up working late. 405 00:21:53,960 --> 00:21:56,359 Speaker 5: If there's somebody there that's going to lure you off course, 406 00:21:57,119 --> 00:21:57,840 Speaker 5: you may have to. 407 00:21:57,760 --> 00:21:59,720 Speaker 4: Give up premium cable. 408 00:22:00,080 --> 00:22:03,080 Speaker 5: If you can't stay off the wrong channels, you gotta 409 00:22:03,119 --> 00:22:04,560 Speaker 5: be willing to leave your coat. 410 00:22:05,160 --> 00:22:06,640 Speaker 4: You can't ask God to help. 411 00:22:06,440 --> 00:22:08,400 Speaker 5: You and go sit in the middle of the temptation. 412 00:22:08,800 --> 00:22:12,040 Speaker 5: You gotta do like Joseph and run from it. And 413 00:22:12,119 --> 00:22:14,560 Speaker 5: I know, men, it's not very macho to run from 414 00:22:14,600 --> 00:22:17,000 Speaker 5: a woman, but you gotta do what you gotta do. 415 00:22:19,200 --> 00:22:23,080 Speaker 5: Young people, quit worrying about how popular you are or 416 00:22:23,080 --> 00:22:25,640 Speaker 5: who's gonna accept you, and do what you gotta do. 417 00:22:26,720 --> 00:22:29,639 Speaker 4: That person at the office that's flirting with you, run 418 00:22:29,680 --> 00:22:30,360 Speaker 4: from them. 419 00:22:30,840 --> 00:22:33,919 Speaker 5: Don't play with fire. If they take the elevator, you 420 00:22:33,960 --> 00:22:36,840 Speaker 5: take the stairs. If they leave it five, you leave 421 00:22:36,880 --> 00:22:40,440 Speaker 5: it five point thirty. Do like Joseph and avoid temptation. 422 00:22:41,200 --> 00:22:43,600 Speaker 5: If you're trying to lose weight, stay out of the kitchen. 423 00:22:45,280 --> 00:22:47,879 Speaker 5: Don't think I'm just gonna go in here and look 424 00:22:48,040 --> 00:22:49,360 Speaker 5: at these freshly. 425 00:22:49,000 --> 00:22:50,440 Speaker 4: Baked chocolate chip cookies. 426 00:22:52,080 --> 00:22:54,400 Speaker 5: After you eat half of them, you'll go around condemned. 427 00:22:54,600 --> 00:22:58,280 Speaker 5: Run from it like this lady I heard about. She 428 00:22:58,440 --> 00:23:01,880 Speaker 5: was on a diet doing so well she even changed 429 00:23:01,880 --> 00:23:04,520 Speaker 5: the route that she used to drive to work so 430 00:23:04,560 --> 00:23:06,840 Speaker 5: she wouldn't have to go by the bakery that she 431 00:23:06,920 --> 00:23:09,920 Speaker 5: used to always go in and buy desserts. One day, 432 00:23:09,920 --> 00:23:11,760 Speaker 5: the roads were closed and she had to go the 433 00:23:11,800 --> 00:23:14,520 Speaker 5: old way. She said, Okay, God, you're gonna have to. 434 00:23:14,480 --> 00:23:15,240 Speaker 4: Help me today. 435 00:23:15,680 --> 00:23:18,760 Speaker 5: I'm not going to stop unless there's a parking spot 436 00:23:18,920 --> 00:23:23,560 Speaker 5: right in the front of that bakery. She came home 437 00:23:23,560 --> 00:23:25,840 Speaker 5: with a big dessert, told her husband, I couldn't help 438 00:23:25,880 --> 00:23:27,760 Speaker 5: it the eighth time around the block. 439 00:23:27,800 --> 00:23:33,080 Speaker 4: There the parking spot was Avoid the temptation, take a 440 00:23:33,080 --> 00:23:33,720 Speaker 4: different route. 441 00:23:33,880 --> 00:23:37,000 Speaker 5: Do what you have to do now, you say, Joel, 442 00:23:37,080 --> 00:23:38,600 Speaker 5: I'm strong, I'm mature. 443 00:23:38,760 --> 00:23:39,679 Speaker 4: I can resist it. 444 00:23:40,480 --> 00:23:44,360 Speaker 5: The scripture says take heed when you think you stand, 445 00:23:44,720 --> 00:23:48,200 Speaker 5: lest you fall. The Apostle Paul was saying, no matter 446 00:23:48,240 --> 00:23:52,439 Speaker 5: how strong you think you are, you are not invincible. 447 00:23:53,200 --> 00:23:56,280 Speaker 5: Every person, every one of us, is capable of giving 448 00:23:56,280 --> 00:23:59,520 Speaker 5: in to temptation. That's why we need to pray ahead 449 00:23:59,560 --> 00:24:02,000 Speaker 5: of time and do what we can to avoid it. 450 00:24:02,880 --> 00:24:04,520 Speaker 4: Partying with the people. 451 00:24:04,200 --> 00:24:07,440 Speaker 5: After work is not worth you missing your destiny over 452 00:24:08,200 --> 00:24:11,040 Speaker 5: Hanging out with the office flirt is not worth you 453 00:24:11,160 --> 00:24:15,159 Speaker 5: ruining your marriage. Watching things that are questionable is not 454 00:24:15,359 --> 00:24:18,679 Speaker 5: worth being sidetracked from where God wants to take you. 455 00:24:19,560 --> 00:24:23,840 Speaker 5: These temptations look so alluring at first, but they always 456 00:24:24,040 --> 00:24:28,400 Speaker 5: end in heartache and pain. I read how an Eskimaux 457 00:24:28,560 --> 00:24:31,560 Speaker 5: used to kill a wolf. He would take his knife 458 00:24:31,600 --> 00:24:35,520 Speaker 5: blade and coat it with animal blood and let it freeze. 459 00:24:35,680 --> 00:24:38,320 Speaker 5: Once it froze, he would put another layer, and another 460 00:24:38,400 --> 00:24:41,399 Speaker 5: and another until it was about an inch thick of 461 00:24:41,520 --> 00:24:43,240 Speaker 5: frozen animal blood. 462 00:24:43,240 --> 00:24:44,440 Speaker 4: Sort of like a popsicle. 463 00:24:44,960 --> 00:24:47,480 Speaker 5: Then he would take that knife into the woods, put 464 00:24:47,480 --> 00:24:51,080 Speaker 5: it in the ground, handle first, with the blades sticking up. 465 00:24:51,800 --> 00:24:54,960 Speaker 4: In the night. The wolf, with its sensitive nose. 466 00:24:54,680 --> 00:24:58,399 Speaker 5: Would come by and start licking the frozen animal blood, 467 00:24:58,400 --> 00:25:00,600 Speaker 5: and the more he licked it, the more he liked it, 468 00:25:00,640 --> 00:25:05,560 Speaker 5: and he'd start looking faster and faster, so feverishly that 469 00:25:05,640 --> 00:25:09,679 Speaker 5: he couldn't even feel the sting of the knife slicing 470 00:25:09,760 --> 00:25:13,439 Speaker 5: his own tongue. He would get so passionate in the 471 00:25:13,480 --> 00:25:17,120 Speaker 5: pleasure of the moment he wouldn't realize the point at 472 00:25:17,119 --> 00:25:21,960 Speaker 5: which his own blood was now satisfying his insatiable thirst. 473 00:25:22,240 --> 00:25:24,679 Speaker 5: By morning time, the wolf would be lying dead in 474 00:25:24,760 --> 00:25:28,400 Speaker 5: the snow. And many times, these temptations that come to us, 475 00:25:28,560 --> 00:25:32,320 Speaker 5: they look so appealing, so inviting, we think all men 476 00:25:32,440 --> 00:25:35,800 Speaker 5: only live once it's not hurting anything. Everybody else is 477 00:25:35,840 --> 00:25:40,240 Speaker 5: doing it now, don't be deceived. Behind that pleasure, there 478 00:25:40,280 --> 00:25:41,840 Speaker 5: is a hidden razor blade. 479 00:25:42,359 --> 00:25:43,880 Speaker 4: You may not feel it in the beginning. 480 00:25:44,720 --> 00:25:47,080 Speaker 5: You know, going out and getting high with some friends 481 00:25:47,119 --> 00:25:50,680 Speaker 5: at first may feel good, but twenty years later, if 482 00:25:50,720 --> 00:25:52,480 Speaker 5: you're addicted and lonely. 483 00:25:52,119 --> 00:25:53,520 Speaker 4: And depressed, doesn't feel good. 484 00:25:54,320 --> 00:25:57,400 Speaker 5: Playing around while you're married may feel good at first, 485 00:25:57,600 --> 00:26:00,879 Speaker 5: but later on when the spouse and the kids the 486 00:26:00,920 --> 00:26:04,640 Speaker 5: homes broken up, doesn't feel good. Being dishonest, not having 487 00:26:04,760 --> 00:26:08,800 Speaker 5: integrity may get you headed first, but later on, when 488 00:26:08,880 --> 00:26:11,400 Speaker 5: the truth comes out, and it always does, it'll put 489 00:26:11,440 --> 00:26:15,960 Speaker 5: you much further behind it. There is a temporary pleasure 490 00:26:16,440 --> 00:26:19,280 Speaker 5: in giving into temptation, but I want you to know 491 00:26:19,440 --> 00:26:24,000 Speaker 5: the pain in the long run will always far outweigh 492 00:26:24,040 --> 00:26:28,000 Speaker 5: the pleasure. I've heard it said the pain of discipline 493 00:26:28,160 --> 00:26:32,360 Speaker 5: is temporary, but the pain of compromise is permanent. 494 00:26:32,960 --> 00:26:34,840 Speaker 4: We say joy's hard, it's. 495 00:26:34,640 --> 00:26:37,439 Speaker 5: Hard to resist. Yes, it may be hard, but do 496 00:26:37,480 --> 00:26:41,200 Speaker 5: you know what's harder? Living in bondage? Going around feeling 497 00:26:41,200 --> 00:26:44,600 Speaker 5: bad about yourself because you know you're so far below 498 00:26:44,720 --> 00:26:48,760 Speaker 5: your potential. There's nothing worse than going through life with 499 00:26:48,880 --> 00:26:50,040 Speaker 5: things holding you back. 500 00:26:50,280 --> 00:26:52,400 Speaker 4: That you know you can defeat. 501 00:26:53,200 --> 00:26:56,640 Speaker 5: And some of you are struggling with addictions, with wrong mindsets, 502 00:26:56,920 --> 00:27:01,400 Speaker 5: with negative emotions. You're allowing something so small to control you. 503 00:27:02,000 --> 00:27:04,480 Speaker 5: Let me tell you what you already know. You're better 504 00:27:04,520 --> 00:27:04,760 Speaker 5: than that. 505 00:27:05,359 --> 00:27:06,480 Speaker 4: You're a child of. 506 00:27:06,440 --> 00:27:09,720 Speaker 5: The most High God. You have royal blood flowing through 507 00:27:09,760 --> 00:27:13,359 Speaker 5: your veins. Don't you dare settle where you are. You 508 00:27:13,480 --> 00:27:18,560 Speaker 5: can overcome anything in your life, large or small, doesn't 509 00:27:18,560 --> 00:27:22,320 Speaker 5: matter if it's a negative attitude or you're addicted to cocaine. 510 00:27:22,760 --> 00:27:25,679 Speaker 5: The power in you is greater than the power that 511 00:27:25,760 --> 00:27:29,080 Speaker 5: is coming against you. You got to keep reminding yourself. 512 00:27:30,200 --> 00:27:33,240 Speaker 5: I am better than this. I Am not going to 513 00:27:33,320 --> 00:27:38,160 Speaker 5: settle for mediocrity. I'm gonna dig my heels in, focused, disciplined, 514 00:27:38,359 --> 00:27:41,760 Speaker 5: and with God's help, I'm gonna resist every temptation. I'm 515 00:27:41,760 --> 00:27:45,600 Speaker 5: gonna break every bondage. Friends, you are well able. Don't 516 00:27:45,680 --> 00:27:49,240 Speaker 5: let something small keep you from the big things God 517 00:27:49,240 --> 00:27:53,280 Speaker 5: has in store. What is that one thing that could 518 00:27:53,320 --> 00:27:57,439 Speaker 5: easily beset you? Identify what it is, and then start 519 00:27:57,480 --> 00:28:01,400 Speaker 5: asking God to help you. Remember, the enemy doesn't have 520 00:28:01,520 --> 00:28:04,360 Speaker 5: any new tricks. If you'll learn to defeat it today, 521 00:28:04,600 --> 00:28:08,080 Speaker 5: you can defeat it. Your whole lifetime and then avoid 522 00:28:08,240 --> 00:28:12,320 Speaker 5: tempting situations. Don't put yourself in a situation where you 523 00:28:12,400 --> 00:28:15,199 Speaker 5: know you're going to be tempted to compromise. But my 524 00:28:15,320 --> 00:28:19,080 Speaker 5: declaration today is that we are going out of here free. 525 00:28:19,160 --> 00:28:21,680 Speaker 5: We are not going to be controlled by a temper, 526 00:28:22,160 --> 00:28:26,119 Speaker 5: by a drug, by an addiction, by a lust, by fear, 527 00:28:26,240 --> 00:28:30,800 Speaker 5: by worry, by a person. No, every stronghold is coming down, 528 00:28:31,200 --> 00:28:34,719 Speaker 5: every bondage is being broken, every chain is being loosed. 529 00:28:34,960 --> 00:28:38,240 Speaker 5: You are going to resist temptation and step into a 530 00:28:38,280 --> 00:28:41,600 Speaker 5: freedom like you've never seen before. I believe it, and 531 00:28:41,640 --> 00:28:44,720 Speaker 5: I declare it over each one of you in Jesus's name. 532 00:28:45,000 --> 00:28:46,960 Speaker 4: If you receive it, can you say him in today? 533 00:28:48,360 --> 00:28:51,200 Speaker 5: We never like to close our broadcast without giving you 534 00:28:51,240 --> 00:28:53,800 Speaker 5: an opportunity to make Jesus the lord of your life. 535 00:28:54,120 --> 00:28:57,880 Speaker 4: Would you pray with me? Just say Lord, Jesus, I 536 00:28:58,000 --> 00:29:01,120 Speaker 4: repent of my sins. Come into my heart. 537 00:29:02,200 --> 00:29:05,680 Speaker 5: I make you my lord and savior. Friends, if you've 538 00:29:05,680 --> 00:29:08,320 Speaker 5: prayed that simple prayer, we believe you got born again. 539 00:29:08,680 --> 00:29:11,640 Speaker 5: Get in a good Bible based church. Keep God first place. 540 00:29:11,960 --> 00:29:14,320 Speaker 4: He's going to take your places that you've never dreamed of. 541 00:29:15,200 --> 00:29:18,080 Speaker 4: Thank you for listening to the joel Oustine podcast. 542 00:29:18,400 --> 00:29:21,040 Speaker 3: Help us continue to share the message of hope with 543 00:29:21,160 --> 00:29:24,400 Speaker 3: those all over the world. Visit joeloustein dot. 544 00:29:24,160 --> 00:29:27,200 Speaker 2: Com slash give Hope to give a gift today. 545 00:29:28,480 --> 00:29:30,959 Speaker 4: Thanks so much for listening to today's message. 546 00:29:31,080 --> 00:29:33,800 Speaker 5: I hope you'll subscribe so you can receive the latest 547 00:29:33,840 --> 00:29:36,880 Speaker 5: podcast to keep you inspired all through the week. 548 00:29:37,120 --> 00:29:40,000 Speaker 4: We're praying for you. I know God's best is still ahead. 549 00:29:40,200 --> 00:29:41,280 Speaker 4: We'll see you next time.