Patience in Testing
How to handle temptation
First, we must understand trials are sent by God and temptation is sent by Satan. Trials on the outside may become temptations on the inside.
- Consider God’s judgment (James 1:13-16)
- Look ahead and see where sin ends
- Temptation is an opportunity to accomplish a good thing in a bad way, outside the will of God
- The process of sin
- Desire – emotional
- Lust can be any kind of desire
- Normal desires are God-given
- Food
- Water
- Sleep
- Lust is when we want to satisfy these desires outside of God’s will
- God’s answer is control
- Desires must be our servants, not our masters
- Normal desires are God-given
- Lust can be any kind of desire
- Deception – intellect
- Drawn away like baiting a trap
- Enticed like baiting a hook
- Temptation always carries with it some bait
- Hides the sorrow and punishment that follow
- David’s sin of adultery
- Death of his child
- Uriah’s death
- Jesus’ temptation to turn the stones to bread
- Satan was baiting Jesus
- David’s sin of adultery
- Hides the sorrow and punishment that follow
- Disobedience – will
- Desire conceives method for taking the bait
- The will approves and acts
- The result is sin
- Christian living is a matter of the will not feelings
- Death
- This could take years
- Genesis 3
- Desire (Genesis 3:6)
- Deception (Genesis 3:5)
- Disobedience (Genesis 3:6b)
- Death (Genesis 2:17)
- Genesis 3
- This could take years
- Desire – emotional
- God’s goodness (James 1:17)
- Satan’s trick is to make us believe God is holding out on us
- God gives only good gifts
- The way God gives is good
- He gives constantly
- He does not change
- God’s gifts are always better than Satan’s bargains!!!
- Satan’s trick is to make us believe God is holding out on us
- Consider God’s nature within (James 1:18)
- Look ahead to judgment
- Look around and see God’s goodness
- Look within and see what God has given you
- Birth – brought us forth
- Divine
- It is gracious
- Through God’s Word
- Finest possible
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