Time to Grow Up – Part 3 October 8, 2008 Handling Temptation Time to Grow Up – Part 3 October 8, 2008

Handling Temptation See James 1:13-18

Trials and Temptations

Trials and Temptations Trials can lead to temptations

Trials and Temptations Trials can lead to temptations Every temptation is a chance to grow in love for God “No temptation has overtaken you except such as is common to man; but God is faithful, who will not allow you to be tempted beyond what you are able, but with the temptation will also make the way of escape, that you may be able to bear it.” 1 Corinthians 10:13

A) Remember God’s Judgment See James 1:14-16

A) Remember God’s Judgment DESIRE “But each one is tempted when he is drawn away by his own desires and enticed.”

A) Remember God’s Judgment DESIRE Sin is when we try to satisfy our God given desires outside of God’s plan “Marriage is honorable among all, and the bed undefiled; but fornicators and adulterers God will judge.” Hebrews 13:4

A) Remember God’s Judgment DESIRE DECEPTION

A) Remember God’s Judgment DESIRE DECEPTION

A) Remember God’s Judgment DESIRE DECEPTION

A) Remember God’s Judgment DESIRE DECEPTION DISOBEDIENCE “Then, when desire has conceived, it gives birth to sin; and sin, when it is full-grown, brings forth death.”

A) Remember God’s Judgment DESIRE DECEPTION DISOBEDIENCE Progression of Sin Temptation = desire + opportunity Sin = temptation + action Sin leads to…

A) Remember God’s Judgment DESIRE DECEPTION DISOBEDIENCE DEATH “For the wages of sin is death” Romans 6:23

A) Remember God’s Judgment DESIRE DECEPTION DISOBEDIENCE DEATH Progression of Sin Temptation = desire + opportunity Sin = temptation + action Death = sin – repentance

A) Remember God’s Judgment DESIRE DECEPTION DISOBEDIENCE DEATH See Genesis 3

A) Remember God’s Judgment DESIRE DECEPTION DISOBEDIENCE DEATH “But I fear, lest somehow, as the serpent deceived Eve by his craftiness, so your minds may be corrupted from the simplicity that is in Christ.” 2 Corinthians 11:3

B) Remember God’s Goodness See James 1:17

B) Remember God’s Goodness God never gives bad gifts

B) Remember God’s Goodness God never gives bad gifts God never stops giving

B) Remember God’s Goodness God never gives bad gifts God never stops giving God never changes

B) Remember God’s Goodness God never gives bad gifts God never stops giving God never changes “Thus says the LORD God of Israel: ‘I anointed you king over Israel, and I delivered you from the hand of Saul. I gave you your master’s house and your master’s wives into your keeping, and gave you the house of Israel and Judah. And if that had been too little, I also would have given you much more!” 2 Samuel 12:7-8

C) Remember you are child of God See James 1:18 “How then can I do this great wickedness, and sin against God?” Genesis 39:9

C) Remember you are child of God “How shall we who died to sin live any longer in it? Or do you not know that as many of us as were baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into His death? Therefore we were buried with Him through baptism into death, that just as Christ was raised from the dead by the glory of the Father, even so we also should walk in newness of life.” Romans 6:2-4

C) Remember you are child of God “Therefore do not let sin reign in your mortal body, that you should obey it in its lusts. And do not present your members as instruments of unrighteousness to sin, but present yourselves to God as being alive from the dead, and your members as instruments of righteousness to God. For sin shall not have dominion over you, for you are not under law but under grace.” Romans 6:12-14

Handling Temptation Remember God’s Judgment Remember God’s Goodness Remember you are a child of God “No temptation has overtaken you except such as is common to man; but God is faithful, who will not allow you to be tempted beyond what you are able” 1 Corinthians 10:13