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Robert Jeffress - How To Handle Temptation (Part 2)

September 5, 2025 | S E | 29:0

Robert Jeffress - How To Handle Temptation (Part 2)
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) | September 5, 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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  • ♪♪
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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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  • Announcer: where there's genuine faith, there will always be
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  • Visible fruit.
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  • In his brand new book "how to know if you're really saved,"
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  • Dr. robert jeffress helps you take stock of the evidence of
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  • Your faith, the spiritual fruit in your daily life.
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  • This outstanding verse by verse walk through the book of james
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  • Genuine faith.
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  • To victory.
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  • ♪♪
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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,
  • 00:16:52.234 --> 00:16:57.406
  • 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.
  • 00:17:23.999 --> 00:17:25.868
  • 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!'"
  • 00:17:46.255 --> 00:17:49.825
  • Now that's the sanitized version.
  • 00:17:49.825 --> 00:17:51.660
  • Literally in hebrew it says, "have sex with me!"
  • 00:17:51.660 --> 00:17:55.697
  • How did joseph respond?
  • 00:17:55.697 --> 00:17:57.032
  • Look at what moses wrote.
  • 00:17:57.032 --> 00:17:58.800
  • And joseph said, "mrs. potiphar,
  • 00:17:58.800 --> 00:18:01.336
  • I sense you have a deep need in your life.
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  • Can we pray about it together?"
  • 00:18:03.605 --> 00:18:09.478
  • "mrs. potiphar, i sense there's something missing
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  • In your marriage.
  • 00:18:11.713 --> 00:18:13.048
  • May i share with you five secrets for a
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  • Scintillating marriage?"
  • 00:18:15.184 --> 00:18:17.486
  • No, joseph knew this situation was too much for his hot hebrew
  • 00:18:17.486 --> 00:18:23.458
  • 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."
  • 00:18:35.771 --> 00:18:37.539
  • She had grabbed him by his garment, he went so far, so
  • 00:18:37.539 --> 00:18:41.210
  • Quickly in the opposite direction she was left holding a
  • 00:18:41.210 --> 00:18:44.413
  • Piece of his garment.
  • 00:18:44.413 --> 00:18:46.048
  • That's what 2 timothy 2:22 says, "flee," run from, run as fast as
  • 00:18:46.048 --> 00:18:52.654
  • You can, "from youthful lusts."
  • 00:18:52.654 --> 00:18:56.725
  • The third way to handle temptation is to remember the
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  • Consequences of sin.
  • 00:19:01.296 --> 00:19:03.999
  • That's what james is talking about in verse 16 when he says,
  • 00:19:03.999 --> 00:19:07.502
  • "do not be deceived, my beloved brethren."
  • 00:19:07.502 --> 00:19:12.708
  • Instead of fantasizing and studying that bait that satan
  • 00:19:12.708 --> 00:19:18.280
  • Has dropped in front of you, look at the hook that is going
  • 00:19:18.280 --> 00:19:23.518
  • To destroy you.
  • 00:19:23.518 --> 00:19:26.888
  • Sometimes when i am tempted, i think about the consequences.
  • 00:19:26.888 --> 00:19:33.862
  • If i fell into sin, what it would mean to this church, what
  • 00:19:33.862 --> 00:19:38.700
  • It would mean to my family, what it would mean to the cause
  • 00:19:38.700 --> 00:19:42.237
  • Of christ.
  • 00:19:42.237 --> 00:19:44.139
  • It's helpful sometimes to imagine the consequences of
  • 00:19:44.139 --> 00:19:48.744
  • Your temptation.
  • 00:19:48.744 --> 00:19:50.779
  • If you were to say yes to that temptation, how would it affect
  • 00:19:50.779 --> 00:19:54.616
  • Your friends who have grown to respect you?
  • 00:19:54.616 --> 00:19:59.288
  • How would it affect your mate who trusts you?
  • 00:19:59.288 --> 00:20:04.092
  • What impact would it have on your children who admire you?
  • 00:20:04.092 --> 00:20:09.464
  • What would it do to your grandchildren who adore you?
  • 00:20:09.464 --> 00:20:14.836
  • How would saying yes to sin impact your savior who died
  • 00:20:14.836 --> 00:20:20.242
  • For you?
  • 00:20:20.242 --> 00:20:22.411
  • Remember the consequences, don't be deceived.
  • 00:20:22.411 --> 00:20:28.517
  • In his book, "three steps forward, two steps back," chuck
  • 00:20:28.517 --> 00:20:34.022
  • Swindall tells about an experience long ago he had while
  • 00:20:34.022 --> 00:20:37.559
  • He was at a bible conference in canada.
  • 00:20:37.559 --> 00:20:40.862
  • He had been there for eight days.
  • 00:20:40.862 --> 00:20:43.031
  • He was missing his family, feeling sorry for himself.
  • 00:20:43.031 --> 00:20:46.568
  • He was stuck on a saturday in a hotel with nothing to do, so he
  • 00:20:46.568 --> 00:20:50.806
  • Went downstairs to the newsstand and picked up a few newspapers,
  • 00:20:50.806 --> 00:20:55.077
  • Headed back to the elevator.
  • 00:20:55.077 --> 00:20:56.945
  • He pushed the up button, and a couple of ladies approached him
  • 00:20:56.945 --> 00:21:01.516
  • And they pushed the up button.
  • 00:21:01.516 --> 00:21:04.319
  • Chuck got in the elevator cab with the two women.
  • 00:21:04.319 --> 00:21:09.491
  • He pressed the 6th floor button and he politely asked the women,
  • 00:21:09.491 --> 00:21:15.364
  • "what floor would you like?"
  • 00:21:15.364 --> 00:21:17.799
  • They said, "six would be fine.
  • 00:21:17.799 --> 00:21:21.236
  • Do you have any plans tonight?"
  • 00:21:21.236 --> 00:21:24.806
  • And chuck said he eventually thought about his family and his
  • 00:21:24.806 --> 00:21:29.411
  • Church, but the first thing that came to his mind, he said it was
  • 00:21:29.411 --> 00:21:33.115
  • Like god drew down window blinds over his eyes, and he saw a
  • 00:21:33.115 --> 00:21:39.855
  • Verse he had memorized decades earlier.
  • 00:21:39.855 --> 00:21:43.392
  • It was galatians 6, verse 7, "do not be deceived, god is not
  • 00:21:43.392 --> 00:21:50.031
  • Mocked; for whatever a man sows, this he shall also reap."
  • 00:21:50.031 --> 00:21:57.305
  • Chuck writes, "during that elevator ride, the memorized
  • 00:21:57.305 --> 00:22:02.177
  • Word flew to my rescue.
  • 00:22:02.177 --> 00:22:05.414
  • As i looked at the two women, i replied, 'i've got a full
  • 00:22:05.414 --> 00:22:09.251
  • Evening planned already.
  • 00:22:09.251 --> 00:22:11.386
  • I'm really not interested.'
  • 00:22:11.386 --> 00:22:13.822
  • I walked to my room, suddenly grateful for the overcoming
  • 00:22:13.822 --> 00:22:18.960
  • 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
  • 00:22:35.310 --> 00:22:39.247
  • The same holy spirit who raised jesus from the dead gives you
  • 00:22:39.247 --> 00:22:43.418
  • The power to resist every temptation that comes your way.
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