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Greg Laurie - How to Deal with Trials and Temptation

April 7, 2025 | S25:E83

Greg Laurie - How to Deal with Trials and Temptation
Join Pastor Greg Laurie for a time of encouragement, worship, and Bible study.
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Harvest with Pastor Greg Laurie | Greg Laurie - How to Deal with Trials and Temptation | April 7, 2025
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  • Greg laurie: okay, question: where does temptation come from?
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  • Our default answer would probably be, "well, the devil."
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  • There's truth to that, but it's not all of it.
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  • It comes from us, too.
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  • We play a key role in our own temptation.
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  • ♪ this is the day, ♪
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  • ♪ the day when life begins. ♪
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  • ♪ this is the day, ♪
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  • ♪ the day when life begins. ♪♪
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  • Greg: maybe i'm talking to somebody going through a fiery
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  • Trial right now.
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  • Seemingly out of nowhere, the bottom just dropped out, and
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  • You're facing problem after problem, and you don't know why
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  • This is happening to you.
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  • You're saying, "what's wrong with me?
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  • What have i done to deserve this?"
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  • Let me have you look at it a little differently.
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  • Instead of asking, "what's wrong with me," maybe you should ask,
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  • "what's right with me?"
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  • Because the reason you're being attacked is because you are a
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  • Threat to satan and his kingdom, and the devil wants to stop you.
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  • So god's allowing these trials in your life for a purpose.
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  • It's been said, christians are a lot like teabags; you don't know
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  • What they're made of until you put them in hot water.
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  • Maybe you're in the hot water of temptation right now.
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  • Are you going through a big trial?
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  • But someone else would say, "well, i'm not going through
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  • Any trials.
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  • I haven't had any hardships, and i can't remember the last time i
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  • Was tempted."
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  • Oh, you just admitted you're basically worthless.
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  • Ever hear the expression, 'you don't need to kick a
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  • Dead horse?'
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  • See, the devil doesn't need to waste his time with an
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  • Immobilized, compromised christian.
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  • Instead, he's gonna focus his energies and his attacks on
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  • Those who are a threat to the kingdom.
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  • But here's the good news.
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  • Jesus said, the gates of hell will not prevail against us.
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  • Have you ever wondered what that means?
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  • See, think of it this way.
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  • Have you ever seen one of those movies where an army is storming
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  • A castle, and they close the gate, and, as the army gets
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  • Closer, they pour boiling oil over the side, right?
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  • But then, what does the army do?
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  • They pull out their battering ram, and they push it through
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  • The gate, and finally the gate breaks, and they go inside.
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  • So, when jesus says, "the gates of hell will not prevail against
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  • You," we're the invading army.
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  • We've got the battering ram of the gospel, and we're breaking
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  • Through the gates, and we're going to break through those
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  • Gates, and those gates will not prevail against us because we're
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  • On the winning side with the message of jesus christ.
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  • That's what that means.
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  • But, if you choose to live that way, you will be opposed.
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  • But that's good news; that's confirmation you're on the
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  • Right track.
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  • All right, so back to the book of james.
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  • This was written to the jewish people who had been scattered;
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  • The 12 tribes of israel were flung far and wide.
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  • They were no longer ruling their own nation as they had in the
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  • Past with kings like david and solomon.
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  • Now they're under the rule of the occupying force of rome and
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  • Caesar, and it's a hard time for them, and they're suffering.
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  • And maybe i'm talking to someone that's suffering right now.
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  • If so, this book is for you.
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  • The book of james was written by the half-brother of
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  • Jesus, james.
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  • Now let me explain half-brother.
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  • The mother of james was mary; the father of james was joseph,
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  • But his half-brother, if you will, was jesus because the
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  • Mother of jesus was mary, but the father of jesus was god the
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  • Father, and he, his son was supernaturally conceived in the
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  • Womb of mary.
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  • Mary was not sinless.
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  • Jesus was not born of what is sometimes called
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  • Immaculate conception.
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  • Mary was a sinner like everyone else, yet she was hand-picked by
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  • God to have this great privilege of being the mother of
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  • The messiah.
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  • But joseph was a stepfather and clearly an earthly father figure
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  • For jesus, and i think he was a great dad.
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  • And we talk a lot about mary and her life, but we shouldn't
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  • Forget joseph because, of all the men god could have chosen,
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  • He said, "i want that man to be the father figure to my son."
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  • And so jesus had siblings because sometimes we hear it
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  • Said jesus had no brothers and sisters.
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  • No, he had brothers and sisters, and james was one of
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  • Those brothers.
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  • But you would think they all believed in him.
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  • I mean, who was a better kid than jesus?
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  • He always did all of his chores, no rebellion, no back talk.
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  • He was the perfect young man, the perfect teenager, the
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  • Perfect young adult.
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  • He was the greatest example of all time.
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  • Yet we read that his own family did not believe in him.
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  • In fact, they came to take him home on one occasion because
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  • They had, they thought he was crazy.
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  • And so that brings me to my first point, if you're
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  • Taking notes.
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  • Even living a perfect christian life will not convince
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  • Some people.
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  • Even living a perfect christian life will not convince
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  • Some people.
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  • Who lived a more perfect life than christ himself?
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  • He never lied, he never stole, he never lost his temper.
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  • He never even sinned inwardly.
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  • Do you think mary ever lectured the other siblings and said,
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  • "kids, why can't you be more like your big brother jesus?
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  • He's such a great example.
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  • In fact, joseph was out in the shop, and he made these little
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  • Wooden bracelets, wwjd.
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  • Wear these.
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  • Ask yourself the question, 'what would jesus do?'"
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  • Well, i don't think that ever happened, but he was a
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  • Perfect example.
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  • But yet they did not believe.
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  • In fact, matthew 13 says he went to his own hometown
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  • Of nazareth where he was raised, he performed miracles.
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  • Their reaction was, "hey, isn't this the carpenter's son?
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  • Isn't his mother's name mary and his brothers
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  • James, joseph, simon, and judas?"
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  • And they took offense at him, and christ said,
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  • "'a prophet is not without honor except in his own country,'
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  • And he did not do many miracles there," the bible says,
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  • "because of their unbelief."
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  • Listen, the hardest people to reach
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  • Are the ones closest to you.
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  • Hardest people to reach, kids, are your parents.
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  • Hardest people to reach, parents, are your kids.
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  • The hardest people to reach are your siblings or your friends
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  • That go all the way back to your school days, and you'll tell
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  • Them how christ has changed your life, and they'll be suspicious.
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  • Don't give up on them.
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  • Keep praying for them.
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  • But it just shows even jesus really didn't have his own
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  • Family believe in him until he was crucified and resurrected.
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  • But look how james starts his epistle, james chapter 1, verse
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  • 1, "james, a bondservant of god and of the lord jesus christ, to
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  • The twelve tribes that are scattered abroad: greetings, my
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  • Brethren, count it all joy when you fall into various trials,
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  • Knowing that the testing of your faith produces patience.
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  • But let patience have its perfect work, that you may be
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  • Perfect and complete, lacking nothing."
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  • Okay, point number one, even living a perfect
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  • Christian life will not convince some people.
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  • Point number two.
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  • Make a choice to rejoice when you go through times of trial.
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  • Look at verse 2, "my brethren, count it all joy when you fall
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  • Into various trials," or another translation puts it this way,
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  • "count it pure, unmixed, complete, and total joy."
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  • What kind of weird thing is that to say to a suffering person?
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  • Here's what he isn't saying.
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  • He's not saying enjoy it when you suffer.
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  • I don't think any of us enjoy suffering.
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  • He's not saying that the trials themselves are joy because they
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  • Are not; in fact, hebrews 12:11 says, "no discipline seems
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  • Pleasant at the time, but painful."
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  • What james is saying is consider it pure joy, or, as i said, make
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  • A choice to rejoice.
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  • You see, it's a matter of will, not emotions.
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  • The more we rejoice in our testings, the more we realize
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  • They're not liabilities but privileges, ultimately helpful,
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  • Not harmful, no matter how severe they may appear.
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  • There are times in life that we go through hardship, but we make
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  • A choice to rejoice.
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  • Take jesus as the ultimate example.
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  • It says in hebrews 12, "for the joy that was set before him, he
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  • Endured the cross, despising the shame, and now has set down at
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  • The right hand of god."
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  • Wait, what joy?
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  • Jesus had been scourged 39 times.
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  • Jesus had his beard ripped from his face.
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  • He had been struck repeatedly with fists.
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  • He had a crown of thorns pressed down on his head.
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  • He had lost a tremendous amount of blood.
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  • And he's carrying this massive cross.
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  • And yet the joy set before him.
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  • What joy?
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  • That joy was you.
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  • That joy was me.
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  • That joy was us because he knew what the cross would accomplish.
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  • Jesus did not come to this earth to be a good example.
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  • He came to be a suffering savior, to die in our place on
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  • The cross and to bear our sins, and then to rise again from
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  • The dead.
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  • But the joy set before him, you see?
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  • Point number three.
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  • Trials happen to make us stronger in every way.
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  • Verse 3, "knowing that the testing of your faith
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  • Produces patience.
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  • But let patience have its perfect work, that you may be
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  • Perfect and complete, lacking nothing."
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  • Okay, so, the word patience is probably not the best
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  • Translation, and i'm using the new king james version here.
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  • It comes from a greek word that translates out to toughness,
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  • Fortitude, endurance, or staying power.
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  • So it's implying something different than simple patience.
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  • A modern translation of james, verses 3 and 4, say, "let
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  • It grow.
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  • Don't try to squirm out of your problems; for when your patience
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  • Is in full blown--" in full bloom, rather--"you're ready
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  • For anything, strong in character, full and complete."
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  • It's like going to the gym and working out.
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  • How many of you go to a gym or a health club, raise your hand?
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  • Okay, a few more of you might think about it, just saying.
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  • How many of you that go to the gym like to go to the gym?
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  • You enjoy it; you love the release of endorphins.
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  • Okay, you--i hope you're not on steroids, sir, i don't know.
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  • Okay, you are; no more coffee for this man over here.
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  • So, hey, i admire anybody that enjoys working out.
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  • I go to the gym; i don't like it; my favorite time is when
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  • It's done.
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  • But here's the funny thing.
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  • I'll make up every excuse as to why i don't wanna go, even when
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  • I'm there, "i don't wanna do this."
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  • But then, once i'm done, i'm glad i did it.
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  • Not because i enjoyed it, but it actually energizes me when i
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  • Complete it.
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  • You see, that's what trials are like.
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  • A lot of people find themselves feeling tired and lethargic.
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  • They say, "well, i'm just getting old."
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  • That, that's maybe true; but you might be out of shape.
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  • Well, you're in a shape; you're in the shape of a pear; that's
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  • Not a good shape.
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  • People even call you the lord's pear, and you don't like it.
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  • So you can't fight age, you can't stop age, but you can do
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  • The best you can with your body and stay strong and get
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  • Stronger physically.
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  • The same can be true spiritually as well.
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  • You might say, "well, i don't feel any spiritual energy.
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  • I feel tired and drained, but i'm still reading my bible.
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  • I'm praying. i'm going to church.
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  • I'm even in a harvest small group.
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  • And i feel this lethargy."
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  • Well, here's my advice to you.
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  • Get off your fat--lazy boy recliner.
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  • What did you think i was gonna say?
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  • Wow, where are your heads at today?
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  • No, get off your lazy boy recliner and do something.
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  • You see, the spiritual life is taking in, but it's also
  • 00:12:52.915 --> 00:12:56.519
  • Giving out.
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  • And, if i only take in, and i don't give out, i am gonna reach
  • 00:12:57.887 --> 00:13:01.123
  • A state of spiritual lethargy.
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  • The bible says, "give and it shall be given unto you, pressed
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  • Down, shaken together, running over.
  • 00:13:07.429 --> 00:13:09.498
  • With the same measure you give, it shall be given back to you."
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  • So trials, trials are like god's gym, where we're broken down in
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  • Order to be built up, where we take our faith from the realm of
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  • Theory to reality so we can start living out our faith in
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  • The real world.
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  • You'll always have trials in this life.
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  • They won't stop until you get to heaven.
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  • But, god will be with you through every single one.
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  • Verse 2 says, "count it all joy when you go through these
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  • Various trials," it's not 'if,' it's 'when;' you're going to go
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  • Through them.
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  • Greg: hey, everybody, greg laurie here with
  • 00:13:53.008 --> 00:13:54.343
  • Some thoughts about anxiety.
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  • Well, there's a lot of things to be anxious about
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  • Right now, aren't there?
  • 00:13:58.914 --> 00:14:00.950
  • All the turmoil in our country, all the fighting,
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  • Which hasn't gotten better, it's actually gotten worse.
  • 00:14:03.986 --> 00:14:07.089
  • Can i make a couple of recommendations?
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  • Maybe don't watch the news for hours on end.
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  • Maybe don't spend all your time on twitter and fighting with
  • 00:14:13.362 --> 00:14:17.867
  • People on social media, et cetera.
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  • And i'm not saying don't be uninformed 'cause we need to be
  • 00:14:19.768 --> 00:14:22.371
  • Aware of what's going on so we know how to pray intelligently,
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  • But take time to fill your mind with the word of god,
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  • Take time to focus on your relationship with god.
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  • We all know this verse very well that says,
  • 00:14:35.517 --> 00:14:38.153
  • "don't worry about anything, pray about everything,
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  • And the peace of god will guard your
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  • Heart and mind in christ jesus."
  • 00:14:43.959 --> 00:14:45.294
  • Scripture also says, "thou will keep him in perfect peace who's
  • 00:14:45.294 --> 00:14:49.265
  • Mind is stayed on thee because he trusteth in thee."
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  • So if you find yourself in turmoil and anguish and if you
  • 00:14:52.835 --> 00:14:56.505
  • Find yourself filled with anxiety,
  • 00:14:56.505 --> 00:14:58.274
  • Put your mind on the lord, turn your thoughts toward the lord,
  • 00:14:58.274 --> 00:15:03.679
  • Fill your life with the word of god,
  • 00:15:03.679 --> 00:15:06.348
  • With worship music, with good bible teaching.
  • 00:15:06.348 --> 00:15:09.418
  • We have a podcast, and there's a lot of great things out there,
  • 00:15:09.418 --> 00:15:12.454
  • But we have a podcast you can listen to,
  • 00:15:12.454 --> 00:15:14.456
  • But listen, look to jesus right now and let's keep praying for
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  • Our nation that god's will, will be done,
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  • But let's also pray that he will give us personal peace.
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  • ♪ this is the day, the day when life begins. ♪♪
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  • Greg: point number four.
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  • It is through trials that we learn great wisdom.
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  • So they not only make us stronger spiritually, but,
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  • Through trials, we learn things that we would not have
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  • Otherwise learned.
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  • Look at verse 5, "if any of you lacks wisdom, let him ask of
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  • God, who gives to all liberally and without reproach, and it
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  • Will be given to him.
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  • But let him ask in faith, with no doubting, for he who doubts
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  • Is like a wave of the sea driven and tossed by the wind.
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  • Let not that man suppose he will receive anything from the lord;
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  • He's a double-minded man, unstable in all of his ways."
  • 00:16:05.240 --> 00:16:09.078
  • You know, we live in a time where we can get information
  • 00:16:09.144 --> 00:16:12.581
  • On demand.
  • 00:16:12.581 --> 00:16:13.916
  • All you have to do is say, "hey, siri, what's the
  • 00:16:13.916 --> 00:16:16.452
  • Temperature today?"
  • 00:16:16.452 --> 00:16:18.087
  • "hey, google, what about this?"
  • 00:16:18.087 --> 00:16:20.356
  • "hey, alexa--" you ask her a question, and you talk to this
  • 00:16:20.356 --> 00:16:24.159
  • Artificial intelligence, and, in many ways, we have knowledge
  • 00:16:24.159 --> 00:16:28.831
  • That's a mile wide, but an inch deep.
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  • We have knowledge without wisdom.
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  • Through knowledge, we've learned how to travel faster than sound.
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  • But we show our lack of wisdom by going faster in the
  • 00:16:37.840 --> 00:16:41.176
  • Wrong direction.
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  • See, what we need is wisdom.
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  • Knowledge is good; we want knowledge.
  • 00:16:44.179 --> 00:16:45.547
  • We need biblical knowledge; we need other kinds of knowledge.
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  • But we need wisdom.
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  • And the bible says, "if any man lack wisdom, let him ask
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  • Of god."
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  • You know, give it generously, but, when you ask, don't doubt.
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  • So this is one of those prayers that, when you pray it, you know
  • 00:16:58.360 --> 00:17:01.897
  • God will answer it.
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  • It's praying for the will of god.
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  • A lot of times, when we sit down to have a meeting or we make
  • 00:17:05.367 --> 00:17:09.071
  • Some plans for the future, we'll pray, "lord, give us wisdom.
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  • You've told us in your word, if any man lacks wisdom, let him
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  • Ask of you, and you'll give it generously.
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  • Lord, we need that wisdom right now."
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  • That's a good prayer to pray.
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  • We need to know his will, especially on the biggest
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  • Decisions of life, one being who you're gonna marry, or maybe god
  • 00:17:25.654 --> 00:17:30.726
  • Won't have you get married.
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  • But you need wisdom to know.
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  • You wanna make the right decision there.
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  • What career path you may choose, what ministry opportunities you
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  • May respond to.
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  • You need this wisdom, and, when you pray, believe you will
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  • Receive it.
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  • Point number five.
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  • God will enable us to endure and get through times of temptation.
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  • God will enable us to endure and get through times of temptation.
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  • James 1, verse 12, "blessed is he who endures temptation; for
  • 00:18:00.255 --> 00:18:04.726
  • When he has been approved, he'll receive the crown of life which
  • 00:18:04.726 --> 00:18:07.529
  • The lord has promised to those who love him.
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  • But let no one say when he is tempted, 'i'm tempted by god;'
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  • For god cannot be tempted by evil, nor does he himself
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  • Tempt anyone."
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  • Look at this part; don't miss these final verses.
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  • "each one is tempted when he is drawn away by his own desires
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  • And is enticed.
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  • And then, when desire has conceived, he gives birth to
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  • Sin; and sin, when it is full-grown, brings forth death."
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  • Okay, question: where does temptation come from?
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  • Our default answer would probably be, "well, the devil."
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  • There's truth to that, but it's not all of it.
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  • It comes from us, too.
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  • We play a key role in our own temptation.
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  • Where there's no desire on our part, there's no temptation.
  • 00:18:49.037 --> 00:18:53.509
  • In fact, in these verses, we have the five steps
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  • To temptation.
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  • Number one, the temptation itself; verse 14, "everyone is
  • 00:19:01.116 --> 00:19:05.053
  • Tempted when they're drawn away by their own desires," which by
  • 00:19:05.053 --> 00:19:08.957
  • The way are common to man.
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  • So, whatever you're being tempted to do, you're not the
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  • Only one because sometimes we may think, "oh, man, how could
  • 00:19:14.763 --> 00:19:18.867
  • That thought have come into my mind?
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  • What is wrong with me?"
  • 00:19:20.702 --> 00:19:22.304
  • Doesn't mean anything's wrong with you.
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  • Listen, it's not a sin to be tempted.
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  • The sin of temptation is not the bait; it's the bite.
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  • If you don't take the bait, you haven't sinned; you have to bite
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  • At it.
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  • So, just because a thought comes to your mind doesn't mean
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  • You're evil.
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  • It just means you're being tempted by evil.
  • 00:19:41.857 --> 00:19:45.394
  • The bible calls it, king james, "the fiery darts of the
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  • Wicked one."
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  • Years ago, when i was a young preacher, i think i was maybe 18
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  • Or 19 when i gave one of my first sermons, was at a
  • 00:19:53.735 --> 00:19:56.538
  • Christian camp.
  • 00:19:56.538 --> 00:19:57.873
  • Chuck smith was there.
  • 00:19:57.873 --> 00:19:59.208
  • I wanted to impress everyone.
  • 00:19:59.208 --> 00:20:01.109
  • And so i was speaking on ephesians 6 about
  • 00:20:01.176 --> 00:20:03.946
  • Spiritual warfare.
  • 00:20:03.946 --> 00:20:05.414
  • And, instead of talking about the fiery darts of the wicked
  • 00:20:05.414 --> 00:20:08.917
  • One, i instead said the diary farts of the wicked one.
  • 00:20:08.917 --> 00:20:13.956
  • It's kind of an embarrassing moment, but, they're not diary
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  • Farts, so it--really, a better translation would be flaming
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  • Arrows, okay, flaming arrows.
  • 00:20:23.198 --> 00:20:25.467
  • So, you know, maybe you're worshiping the lord, and your
  • 00:20:25.467 --> 00:20:28.503
  • Thoughts are on heavenly things, and, all of a sudden--
  • 00:20:28.503 --> 00:20:31.073
  • Phth phth phth--that's the sound of an arrow.
  • 00:20:31.073 --> 00:20:34.309
  • That sound like an arrow?
  • 00:20:34.309 --> 00:20:35.911
  • There it is.
  • 00:20:35.911 --> 00:20:37.279
  • Okay, all of a sudden, weird, bizarre thought,
  • 00:20:37.279 --> 00:20:39.214
  • Horrible thought.
  • 00:20:39.214 --> 00:20:40.582
  • Oh, and the devil says, "how could you think that in church?"
  • 00:20:40.582 --> 00:20:44.286
  • Well, these are temptations.
  • 00:20:44.353 --> 00:20:46.321
  • You just say, "i reject that.
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  • That is not from god."
  • 00:20:47.823 --> 00:20:49.157
  • Okay, so, the temptation itself, we're all going to be tempted.
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  • Number two.
  • 00:20:52.728 --> 00:20:54.062
  • But maybe you're interested in it.
  • 00:20:54.062 --> 00:20:55.597
  • So everyone is drawn away by their own desire.
  • 00:20:55.597 --> 00:20:59.234
  • See, "there's, i could have been," "i won't do it, but show
  • 00:20:59.234 --> 00:21:03.639
  • Me what you're offering," you know.
  • 00:21:03.639 --> 00:21:06.642
  • It's like that test drive.
  • 00:21:06.642 --> 00:21:07.976
  • You're looking at that car.
  • 00:21:07.976 --> 00:21:09.344
  • "let's take it out for a spin."
  • 00:21:09.344 --> 00:21:10.679
  • Oh, "no."
  • 00:21:10.679 --> 00:21:12.047
  • They go, "come on now."
  • 00:21:12.047 --> 00:21:13.382
  • Why are they doing that?
  • 00:21:13.382 --> 00:21:14.750
  • Because you will be locked in a car with a person that will try
  • 00:21:14.750 --> 00:21:17.686
  • To close that deal and make that sale.
  • 00:21:17.686 --> 00:21:21.390
  • Or the free sample.
  • 00:21:21.456 --> 00:21:23.292
  • You know, i was in a farmer's market yesterday walking along,
  • 00:21:23.358 --> 00:21:26.495
  • And they were offering free samples, and some guy said, "i
  • 00:21:26.495 --> 00:21:29.331
  • Have free sample," and it's soup.
  • 00:21:29.331 --> 00:21:30.832
  • I'm like, "i don't want soup."
  • 00:21:30.832 --> 00:21:32.934
  • What, who even wants to eat soup?
  • 00:21:33.001 --> 00:21:36.038
  • How can anyone make a meal from soup?
  • 00:21:36.104 --> 00:21:39.107
  • Soup to me is like salad.
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  • It's what i eat to warm up for real food, right?
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  • "try this."
  • 00:21:43.779 --> 00:21:45.113
  • "nah, it's okay."
  • 00:21:45.113 --> 00:21:46.481
  • "no, try it."
  • 00:21:46.481 --> 00:21:47.816
  • "okay, whatever."
  • 00:21:47.816 --> 00:21:49.184
  • I take a little sip of his tiny little cup.
  • 00:21:49.184 --> 00:21:50.519
  • "i'll have it now.
  • 00:21:50.519 --> 00:21:51.887
  • How much is it?"
  • 00:21:51.887 --> 00:21:53.221
  • It was great soup.
  • 00:21:53.221 --> 00:21:54.589
  • It was really hearty with turkey in it and all kinds of things.
  • 00:21:54.589 --> 00:21:56.925
  • So i bought this bag of frozen soup.
  • 00:21:56.925 --> 00:21:59.494
  • Cathe's buying vegetables.
  • 00:21:59.561 --> 00:22:01.563
  • Look what i bought.
  • 00:22:01.563 --> 00:22:02.898
  • It's like, "why?"
  • 00:22:02.898 --> 00:22:04.266
  • "i don't know.
  • 00:22:04.266 --> 00:22:05.600
  • It was good."
  • 00:22:05.600 --> 00:22:06.968
  • It started with a free sample.
  • 00:22:06.968 --> 00:22:08.303
  • So the devil says, "okay, okay, i know you would never do this
  • 00:22:08.303 --> 00:22:10.972
  • Because you're such a godly person.
  • 00:22:10.972 --> 00:22:13.575
  • But just take this thought for a spin.
  • 00:22:13.642 --> 00:22:17.612
  • Just take a little nibble; it'll be fun.
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  • You would never act on it."
  • 00:22:20.082 --> 00:22:21.416
  • But that's the whole strategy of temptation.
  • 00:22:21.416 --> 00:22:24.319
  • It starts in the realm of your mind.
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  • Now you're almost hooked.
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  • Verse 14 of james 1, "you're drawn away by your own desires."
  • 00:22:28.724 --> 00:22:32.561
  • There's still a way out.
  • 00:22:32.561 --> 00:22:34.196
  • But you're thinking, you're processing, you're considering,
  • 00:22:34.196 --> 00:22:37.799
  • And the hook is now set, and you bite.
  • 00:22:37.799 --> 00:22:40.001
  • Verse 15, "when desire is conceived, it gives birth
  • 00:22:40.001 --> 00:22:42.838
  • To sin."
  • 00:22:42.838 --> 00:22:44.172
  • And so you've acted on the evil thought, and there's maybe the
  • 00:22:44.172 --> 00:22:48.143
  • Momentary pleasure that can come from certain sins.
  • 00:22:48.143 --> 00:22:53.048
  • But then immediately, if your conscience is working, guilt
  • 00:22:53.115 --> 00:22:56.251
  • Kicks in, regret, remorse, that spiritual deadness.
  • 00:22:56.251 --> 00:23:02.958
  • Thank god you can say, "lord, i'm sorry, i repent," and he'll
  • 00:23:02.958 --> 00:23:06.795
  • Forgive you.
  • 00:23:06.795 --> 00:23:08.130
  • But you know the effects of sin that can happen in your life.
  • 00:23:08.130 --> 00:23:11.366
  • And then the effects of sin, number five, kick in; verse 15,
  • 00:23:11.366 --> 00:23:15.270
  • "sin, when it's full-grown, brings forth death."
  • 00:23:15.270 --> 00:23:18.840
  • The bible says, "the soul that sins shall surely die."
  • 00:23:18.907 --> 00:23:22.644
  • It also says, "the wages of sin are death."
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  • You're now separated from god.
  • 00:23:25.814 --> 00:23:27.783
  • So now i wanna blame someone.
  • 00:23:27.783 --> 00:23:29.351
  • This is not my fault.
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  • The devil made me do it.
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  • No, he didn't.
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  • Devil can't make you do anything.
  • 00:23:34.156 --> 00:23:35.490
  • He can tempt you.
  • 00:23:35.490 --> 00:23:36.858
  • You have to cooperate.
  • 00:23:36.858 --> 00:23:38.260
  • "well, this other person, they, it's their fault; they
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  • Tempted me."
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  • Well, maybe they did, but you're still responsible for your
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  • Own actions.
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  • That's what adam did; he blamed eve.
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  • And eve played a role in it, but, ultimately, it was adam's
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  • Decision to eat of that forbidden fruit.
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  • Okay, here's another thought.
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  • We're almost done here.
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  • When does temptation generally come?
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  • This might surprise you.
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  • When does it generally come?
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  • After times of great blessing.
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  • Remember jesus was baptized by his cousin john the baptist.
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  • And then you remember that the father spoke from heaven and
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  • Said, "this is my beloved son in whom i am well pleased."
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  • And the spirit of god came upon jesus in the form of a dove.
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  • What a moment, what a blessing.
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  • And what do we read then?
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  • Immediately after that, jesus went into the wilderness to be
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  • Tested and tempted by the devil.
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  • After the dove came the devil; after the blessing came
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  • The temptation.
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  • So it might happen after church.
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  • Oh, i love that.
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  • Great time of worship, so so sermon.
  • 00:24:45.627 --> 00:24:48.029
  • But, still, you're in your car; someone cuts you off, "you
  • 00:24:48.029 --> 00:24:52.968
  • Stinking oof!"
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  • You start fighting with your wife in front of your kids.
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  • Something else happens.
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  • Wait, what's going on?
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  • Yeah, well, attacks often come after times of blessing.
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  • So brace yourself for that.
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  • Be aware of that, and that's what's going to happen in life.
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  • But god always has a way out for us, and every temptation can
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  • Be resisted.
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  • And listen to this; i love that verse, "blessed is the man that
  • 00:25:17.726 --> 00:25:20.996
  • Endures temptation; for when he has been tried, he'll receive
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  • The crown of life."
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  • Greg: there are so many things to be worried about right now,
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  • Aren't there?
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  • The worrying about terrorism, worry about your personal
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  • Safety, violent crime, the economy, the list goes on.
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  • Here's what the bible says, "don't worry about anything.
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  • Pray about everything."
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  • Turn your panic into prayer.
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  • Jesus said, "come unto me, all of you that are laboring and are
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  • Heavy laden.
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  • I will give you rest."
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  • Give your burdens, give your problems over to god, and let
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