Dr. Robert Jeffress

Robert Jeffress - How To Handle Temptation (Part 2)

August 8, 2025 | 29:0

Pathway to Victory offers a practical application of God’s Word to everyday life through the clear, biblical teaching of Pastor Jeffress.

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Dr. Robert Jeffress | Robert Jeffress - How To Handle Temptation (Part 2) | August 8, 2025

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Male announcer: from the pulpit of the first baptist church of
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Dallas, texas, this is "pathway to victory" with
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Dr. robert jeffress.
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Dr. robert jeffress: hi, i'm robert jeffress, and welcome
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Again to "pathway to victory."
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We've all felt the magnetic pull of temptation.
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That moment when something we know is wrong suddenly
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Seems irresistible.
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Whether it's a financial shortcut, a relationship outside
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Of god's will, or simply losing our temper, temptation comes
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Knocking at everybody's door.
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Well, here's the good news.
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Giving in to temptation is not inevitable.
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Today we're going to discover practical biblical strategies
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For resisting the enemy's schemes and walking in victory.
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My message is titled "how to handle temptation" on today's
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Edition of "pathway to victory."
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♪ it's not conservative or liberal, ♪
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♪ however they're defined. ♪
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♪ it's not about interpretation ♪
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♪ or the judgment of the mind. ♪
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♪ it's the opposite of politics, power, or prestige. ♪
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♪ it's about a simple message ♪
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♪ and whether we believe. ♪
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♪ it's still the cross. ♪
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♪ it's still the blood of calvary. ♪
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♪ that cleanses sin ♪
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♪ and sets the captive free. ♪
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♪ it's still the name. ♪
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♪ the name of jesus ♪
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♪ that has power to save the lost. ♪
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♪ it's still the cross. ♪
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♪ and some may say it's man's religion ♪
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♪ or an ancient history. ♪
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♪ the cross of jesus still remains ♪
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♪ the price for sin ♪
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♪ that sets us free. ♪
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♪ it's still the cross. ♪
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♪ it's still the blood of calvary. ♪
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♪ that delivers us and cleanses us ♪
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♪ and sets us free. ♪
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♪ it's still the name of jesus ♪
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♪ that has power to set us free. ♪
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♪ it's still the cross. ♪
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♪ it's the cross. ♪
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♪ the cross. ♪
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♪ thank god for the cross ♪
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♪ hallelujah. ♪♪
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Jeffress: god sometimes takes a christian's life who is involved
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In sin.
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That is expressed in 1 john 5:16, when john talks about sin
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Unto death: "if anyone sees his brother committing a sin not
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Leading to death, he shall ask and god will give him life to
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Those who commit sin not leading to death.
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But there is sin leading to death."
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Now, in your english translation it says, "a sin."
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A's an article.
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It makes us think, "there is one particular sin.
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If you commit that, god's going to kill you."
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That's not what it says in the greek text.
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There is no article.
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It's "anarthrous."
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It literally reads, "sin leading to death."
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It's not a particular sin that causes god to take your life,
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But it's a state of sinning.
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That is, you get so hardened to sin, sin has become so
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Characteristic of your life that, in some instances, god
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Takes your life.
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You are a miserable witness for jesus christ.
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You're leading other people astray.
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God sometimes says, "it would be better to take this child and
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Call him home than to leave him here and disrupt my reputation."
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There is sin unto death.
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So i think when james talks about sin bringing forth death,
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He is referring sometimes to physical death, but that word,
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Thanatos, "death," also means a separation of our spirit from
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God, a separation from god.
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Now, as a christian, we don't have to worry about eternal
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Separation from god.
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Paul says in romans 8, "for i'm convinced that nothing can ever
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Separate us from the love of god."
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Jesus said in john 10:28 to 30, "i give eternal life to them,
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And they shall never perish; no man shall snatch out of my hands
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Those whom the father has given me."
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That can never change positionally.
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Once you're a part of god's family, you're always a part of
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God's family.
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But even though sin doesn't affect our positional
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Relationship with god, it can affect our relational fellowship
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With god.
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Sin can break our fellowship with our heavenly father.
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When we sin, we put up a wall of separation that keeps us from
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Wanting to seek fellowship with god because we feel guilty.
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You know, i remember so well the first report card i ever got in
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The first grade.
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Can anybody remember their first report card?
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I was so anxious to get that report card, i thought, to see
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How i'd done.
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And on the left-hand side, there were all the academic subjects--
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Arithmetic, reading, social studies, and so forth--and i
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Had mostly a's and a few b's.
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But on the right side of that card was what they called
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Citizenship--you know, your attitude, your friendliness,
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Your obedience to the teacher.
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And the way they graded that was either by an s, satisfactory;
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Or a u, unsatisfactory.
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And i looked over there at that side of my card and saw all s's.
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And in my first-grade logic, i said to myself, "now, if a is
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The best you can do and f is the worst you can do, what in the
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World does s mean?
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Does that mean i'm about to be expelled as i start out my
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Academic career?"
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I was scared to death.
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I folded that card up and i hid it under my bed for three days,
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Not wanting to show my parents because i was sure i had done
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Something wrong.
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I didn't have any desire to talk to them, to be with them.
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What i thought was sin had broken my relationship with
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My parents.
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That's the same way with real sin in our life and god.
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Guilt wants us to run from god.
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It produces a separation from god.
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I think it's that kind of, what one writer calls, a deathlike
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Existence that david experienced after his sin with bathsheba.
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Remember in psalm 32, verses 3 and 4?
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He said, "when i kept silent about my sin, my body wasted
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Away through my groaning all day long.
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For day and night thy hand was heavy upon me.
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My vitality was drained away as with the fever heat of summer."
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Because david did not confess his sin, he felt the weight of
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God's hand on his life and he was at distance from god.
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In the same way james says, sin in our life destroys, in a
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Practical way, our relationship with god.
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Notice his final warning about temptation, verse 16, "do not be
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Deceived, my brethren."
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That hook that looks so appetizing, that bait that looks
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So appetizing, has a hidden hook in it that will destroy
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Everything important to you.
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That sin will destroy your practical relationship with god.
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It may destroy your marriage.
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It may destroy your witness for christ.
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It may mean the death of your career, but sin always results
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In death.
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Is there any victory over sin?
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Are we bound inevitably to sin?
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No, romans 8:2 says we can have freedom over every temptation
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That comes into our life.
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Listen to the words of romans 8, verse 2 in the living bible,
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"for the power of the life-giving spirit--and this
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Power is mine through christ jesus--has freed me from the
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Vicious circle of sin and death."
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If you're a christian, you have the resurrection power of jesus
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Christ in your life.
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The same holy spirit of god who raised jesus from the dead is at
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Work in your life to deliver you from the power of sin.
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Giving in to temptation isn't inevitable, but god's power is
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Not enough.
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That may shock some of you.
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God's power is not enough.
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It requires your and my effort as well.
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How do i know that?
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James 4:7 says, "you resist the devil."
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Not let god resist the devil.
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"you resist the devil, and he will flee from you."
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How do you do that practically?
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How do you resist the devil when temptation comes?
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Let's go back to that equation and see how to counteract
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That equation.
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Remember the first component is corrupt desires.
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If corrupt desires play a part in our sin then we need to
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Refuse to nurture our corrupt desires.
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Refuse to nurture, refuse to feed our corrupt desires.
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Now remember, most desires are legitimate desires that have
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Gone wrong.
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God gave us a desire for sex.
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He gave us that desire for sex to strengthen our
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Marriage relationship.
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God has given us a desire for money to take care of the basic
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Needs of ourselves and our family that we're
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Responsible for.
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God has given us a desire to work.
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That comes from god to help us fulfill our god-given purpose.
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Many times our corrupt desires are genuine desires that we try
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To meet illegitimately, or they may be desires, needed desires
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In our life that we take to excess.
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Whatever the case, we're like lion tamers, having to
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Constantly tame our temptations either to fulfill desires
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Illegitimately or to fill them in excess.
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How do you do that?
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Well, don't nurture those corrupt desires.
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Job said in job 31, verse 1, "i have made a covenant with my
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Eyes; how then could i gaze at a," young woman, "a virgin?"
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He said, "i've just made myself a practice, that if i see a
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Pretty lady, i'll look once, but i'm not gonna look twice.
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I'm not gonna gaze at her.
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I'm not gonna enter a fantasy of what it would be like to be with
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Her sexually.
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I won't gaze at a woman."
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I remember when i was youth minister here, back when the
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Dinosaurs roamed the earth.
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I remember one of our students made an appointment to see us.
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He was a guy, leader in the youth group.
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He said, "robert, i need some advice.
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I just am filled with lust.
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All i can think about are illicit thoughts," and i said,
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"well, is there a time when you find those desires increasing?
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When you're--a time you're prone to lust?"
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He said with a straight face, "yes, when i'm looking at
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'playboy' magazine."
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Remember "playboy" magazine?
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Some of you gonna act like you don't know what i'm
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Talking about.
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Today it's internet porn, but it's just so obvious.
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Why would you do that and not expect to have your corrupt
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Desires enticed?
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But you know, it's not just sexual desires that can
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Run amok.
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So can material desires.
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You can feed your corrupt desires for material things.
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We used to call it window shopping.
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Nobody goes to the mall much anymore, but you can do it on
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Your iphone.
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You can scroll through and look at all kind of clothes you wish
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You had, or boats, or houses, or different things.
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Some people fuel their excessive desire for money.
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They fuel that by constantly looking at the stock market, and
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See if their investments are up and down, and calculating how
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Much money they have.
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Whatever desires satan wants to incite in your life, refuse to
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Play along by feeding those desires, whether they're sexual,
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Material, or monetary.
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By the way, it's not enough just to starve your corrupt desires.
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You have to feed your new desires.
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Remember psalm 119, verse 9-11.
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David said, "how can a young man keep his life pure?
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By keeping it according to thy word.
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Thy word have i hid in my heart, that i might not sin
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Against god."
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Secondly, recognize and run from satan's bait.
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Remember, the temptation equation not only involves your
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Corrupt desires, but it involves the right bait at the
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Wrong time.
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We need to recognize and run from satan's bait.
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Satan is the master fisherman.
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You know, people say and ask me sometimes, "is satan omniscient?
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Does he know everything?
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Can he read our minds?"
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No, he's not omniscient and he can't read your minds.
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He doesn't have to.
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He's watched you long enough.
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He has studied you.
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He knows exactly what bait to dangle in front of you and he
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Knows when feeding time is, and that's why if we're gonna be
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Successful in saying no to sin, we not only need to be students
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Of scripture, we need to be students of ourselves.
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We need to understand what it is that most likely to tempt us.
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We need to understand when we're most vulnerable to
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Satan's temptations.
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A rocky period in your marriage may increase your desire for
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Intimacy, and satan dangles right in front of you, the
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Possibility of an illicit relationship.
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Maybe a missed promotion stirs up a desire for recognition in
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Your heart, and satan dangles another job offer that is
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Outside god's will for your life.
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Maybe an unforeseen emergency creates a need for more money,
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And satan dangles in front of you, an opportunity for an
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Illegal business scheme in making money.
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The best thing to do when that bait is dropped, now listen to
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Me, the best thing to do when that bait is dropped is not to
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Admire it, to study it, to fantasize about it.
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The best thing you can do is to run from it.
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Run from it.
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That's what joseph did.
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Remember in genesis 39, the wife of his boss potiphar kept making
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The moves on joseph.
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She would continually entice him to have sex with her, and one
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Day she had joseph all to herself.
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Verse 12 says, and mrs. potiphar, "caught him by his
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Garment, saying, 'lie with me!'"
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Now that's the sanitized version.
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Literally in hebrew it says, "have sex with me!"
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How did joseph respond?
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Look at what moses wrote.
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And joseph said, "mrs. potiphar,
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I sense you have a deep need in your life.
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Can we pray about it together?"
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"mrs. potiphar, i sense there's something missing
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In your marriage.
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May i share with you five secrets for a
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Scintillating marriage?"
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No, joseph knew this situation was too much for his hot hebrew
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Hormones to handle on his own, and so he did the most spiritual
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Thing he could do.
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He scrammed.
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The bible says, "and he left his garment in her hand and fled,
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And went outside."
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She had grabbed him by his garment, he went so far, so
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Quickly in the opposite direction she was left holding a
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Piece of his garment.
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That's what 2 timothy 2:22 says, "flee," run from, run as fast as
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You can, "from youthful lusts."
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The third way to handle temptation is to remember the
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Consequences of sin.
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That's what james is talking about in verse 16 when he says,
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"do not be deceived, my beloved brethren."
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Instead of fantasizing and studying that bait that satan
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Has dropped in front of you, look at the hook that is going
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To destroy you.
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Sometimes when i am tempted, i think about the consequences.
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If i fell into sin, what it would mean to this church, what
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It would mean to my family, what it would mean to the cause
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Of christ.
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It's helpful sometimes to imagine the consequences of
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Your temptation.
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If you were to say yes to that temptation, how would it affect
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Your friends who have grown to respect you?
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How would it affect your mate who trusts you?
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What impact would it have on your children who admire you?
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What would it do to your grandchildren who adore you?
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How would saying yes to sin impact your savior who died
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For you?
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Remember the consequences, don't be deceived.
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In his book, "three steps forward, two steps back," chuck
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Swindall tells about an experience long ago he had while
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He was at a bible conference in canada.
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He had been there for eight days.
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He was missing his family, feeling sorry for himself.
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He was stuck on a saturday in a hotel with nothing to do, so he
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Went downstairs to the newsstand and picked up a few newspapers,
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Headed back to the elevator.
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He pushed the up button, and a couple of ladies approached him
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And they pushed the up button.
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Chuck got in the elevator cab with the two women.
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He pressed the 6th floor button and he politely asked the women,
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"what floor would you like?"
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They said, "six would be fine.
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Do you have any plans tonight?"
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And chuck said he eventually thought about his family and his
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Church, but the first thing that came to his mind, he said it was
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Like god drew down window blinds over his eyes, and he saw a
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Verse he had memorized decades earlier.
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It was galatians 6, verse 7, "do not be deceived, god is not
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Mocked; for whatever a man sows, this he shall also reap."
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Chuck writes, "during that elevator ride, the memorized
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Word flew to my rescue.
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As i looked at the two women, i replied, 'i've got a full
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Evening planned already.
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I'm really not interested.'
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I walked to my room, suddenly grateful for the overcoming
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Power of god's book."
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♪♪♪
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Jeffress: that temptation that looks so appealing today can
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Destroy everything you hold dear tomorrow, but if you're a
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Christian, you have the holy spirit living inside you, and
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The same holy spirit who raised jesus from the dead gives you
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The power to resist every temptation that comes your way.
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Answer the door.
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By refusing to nurture corrupt desires, recognizing satan's
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Bait, and remembering sin's consequences, you can experience
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Victory every single time.
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Different thing to actually do what god's word says.
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Just a hearer is the key to experiencing god's richest
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Blessings in your life.
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Word of god, to defend the word of god without ever doing the
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Word of god.
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We have been called to be doers of the word of god and not
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Hearers only.
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Robert Jeffress - How To Handle Temptation (Part 2)

August 8, 2025 | 29:0

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