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We've come around all mysteries, gadgets, fears, melodies.

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Beautiful unless we are the honest prize of a breaking heart.

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Better than a house, better than a church bell ringing.

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Better than a choir singing out, singing out.

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We've come around all mysteries, gadgets, fears, melodies.

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Beautiful unless we are the honest prize of a breaking heart.

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Better than a hallelujah.

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Okay, so obviously you can see that our lesson today is on a set of verses today.

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And so this set of verses really, when I was a young Christian, it really spoke to me, really touched my heart.

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In fact, we took a little trip, a field trip with our Sunday school class.

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I don't know if you remember this or not from my test 20, but I began teaching Sunday school very early as a Christian, which was against my grain.

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It was not anything that I felt comfortable doing.

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And we took our Sunday school class on a little trip down to see the old and tangy caverns down in, by Columbus.

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And on the way back, we got a storm. We were driving on the back country road with a big van.

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And it was kind of scary. And our devotional that day was from 1st Corinthians, Chapter 10.

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And as I was driving on that back country road with a half dozen of other people's greatest treasures in my van, which is their children,

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and Sherry and I were going, like, should we just stop and get off the road and wait?

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I mean, the weather was really bad. We were praying and they were praying. Everybody's praying.

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And then the weather cleared up and we got one more problem. We didn't even have to stop.

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But there was just a few minutes in there where we didn't know what was going to happen.

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And while we were praying, some of the boys in the youth group at that time were in my class, actually.

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It's a seventh and eighth grade class.

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And some of them were in there quoted from the verses that we had studied at the caverns that day.

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And so it really spoke to me. And we're going to look at them. I'm going to read the verses first.

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And then if you can believe it, everything that's on this page, every blank pretty much comes directly,

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at least all the statements come directly out of the text. OK, some of them you couldn't possibly guess.

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And I'll just give them to you. You can write them in at the time. And some of them, they just make a lot of sense.

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So it's first Corinthians, chapter 10, and I'm going to be reading verses 11 to 14. And it goes something like this.

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Now these things happened to them as an example, and they were written for our instruction upon whom the ends of the ages have come.

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Therefore, let him who thinks he stands take heed, lest he fall.

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No temptation has overtaken you but such as is common to man.

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And God is faithful, who will not allow you to be tempted beyond what you are able.

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But with temptation will provide the way of escape also that you may be able to endure it.

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Therefore, my beloved, flee from idolatry.

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Now we can go on and we kind of need to look a little bit at what we were talking about before.

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You'll notice back in verse 11, it says now these things.

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So the question is, what are the things that we're talking about?

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If you look back in 9, let us not try the Lord as some of them did and were destroyed by the serpents.

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Now you know who he's talking about, right?

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Remember that story? The Israelites coming out of Egypt and they're now wandering in the desert.

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And serpents attacked and were destroyed and would bite them.

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And they were poisoned. They were dying. Even the strongest of them were dying.

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And they were given the bronze serpent to look unto.

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And when they would look at the serpent, they would be saved.

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But if they refused to look at the serpent, even the strongest amongst them would die.

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Well, that whole story is encapsulated in where he says,

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Nor grumble as some of them did and were destroyed by the destroyer.

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In other words, they complained, they weren't happy, and then God allowed,

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God removed their protections and allowed them to be attacked.

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And then if they wouldn't look to the bronze serpent, which we now later know represents Jesus,

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then they wouldn't be spared.

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So that's who he's talking about. People that grumbled along the way.

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God's people protected by God, led by God, all they grumbled along the way.

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And God allowed the destroyer to come in and destroy them. And they didn't make it.

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And then he says, that happened to them as an example.

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That happened to them. They were destroyed that way.

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And it was written for our instruction upon whom the ends of the age have come.

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And that is us, right? That is the church. That is God's people.

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So we're going to start, we're starting in the upper left-hand corner.

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You'll notice there's some little boxes there.

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And in the little box there, you can write God.

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Apple G-O-V. God.

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And so we're going to talk about God.

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So all of these things are going to be about God in some sense.

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And the first one is found where it says, it's right in the middle of verse 13,

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it says, No temptation has overtaken you, but such as is common demand.

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God is faithful. Right?

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Now, interestingly enough, in the Greek language, that's two words.

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And you can memorize these words and they'll be a huge plus.

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A lot of times you can't memorize the Greek because you don't know it well or whatever.

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But it's theos pistos. Theos pistos.

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Very simple. And it means God is faithful.

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Pistos is faithful. And so God is faithful.

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It is his supply. It's inside the faithful.

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And so God is faithful. So what does it mean to say God is faithful?

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Throwing it out there. Not a rhetorical question.

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Fashon, what would you say it means to say God is faithful?

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It's trustworthy.

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You can expect that God will keep his promises. He tells the truth.

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He stays the course to the end.

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What he says he's going to do, he doesn't.

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God is faithful. Theos pistos.

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Okay. And not written in the text, but what the text is about, God is also what?

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Starts of the day. He's faithful and he's probably his number one trait.

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Almighty. Amazing.

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You're making it more complicated, but that's true. He is amazing also.

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He's able. God is able.

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So there's a, you know the old joke, right?

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Would God ever make a rock so big that God can't move it?

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Or rather I should say, could God ever make a rock so big that God can't move it?

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What's the answer to that question? Because you're going to get it at some point in time.

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That's how people try to disprove God.

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If God's all powerful, he could make a rock that he can't move it.

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Therefore that's a contradiction. So God can't be real, right?

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So what's the answer to that question?

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Can you try to tackle it?

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Say it again. He can, but he wouldn't.

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He can, but he wouldn't. That's right.

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The answer is such that he can do, but he would restrain himself from doing so.

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And why would he restrain himself from doing so?

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Because if he ever made a rock so big that he could not move it,

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he would then have to make himself big enough to move it.

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And then he could have to make a rock bigger so that he couldn't move it.

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And it's infinite, right?

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It creates an infinite loop. It breaks the rules of reality.

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Could a person leap off a cliff and not die? Sure they could.

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But the rule of gravity says they probably won't.

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And that's the way it is with God. God is able.

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He's able to make a rock so big that he cannot move it.

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And he's able to make himself then move it.

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And then he's able to make himself another rock that he can't move.

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And so on. He's able.

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There's no limit to God's ability. God is omnipotent.

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Now based on this verse dealing with temptation,

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it says there is no temptation that has overtaken you, but such is his common demand.

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God is faithful who will not allow you to tend beyond what you are able.

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But with the temptation will provide the way of escape.

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And so there it is.

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H P. What's the P?

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Provides. Provides.

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And escape. Escape.

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Or an exit. Or whatever you want to put there.

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Right? God always provides.

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So this is what people say, well I wouldn't have done it, but I was tempted.

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And I was overcome by temptation.

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But there actually is never an excuse to be overcome by temptation.

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Because God never allows you to be tempted without also providing an escape.

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A way out of doing the thing that you are tempted to do.

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And I didn't say that. God said that.

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And I'm quoting God because he says he will provide an exit or an escape.

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Okay? And then the next one's a little bit tricky.

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Key. And the next word starts with an E and I'll give it to you.

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Expects. And then I didn't give you any of the rest of the letters.

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What do you think God expects from us?

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He provides an exit or an escape and what does he expect?

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He expects us to take it. Exactly.

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He expects us to take it.

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So God teaches you what's right and wrong.

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Jesus said the Holy Spirit will come and teach you all things that I have commanded you.

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Right? God convicts men of their sin.

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So the Holy Spirit would bring conviction to all men.

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Saved and unsaved alike.

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Then God provides an exit when temptation comes.

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There is no temptation except that which is common to man.

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He provides an exit and he expects you to take the exit.

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If you're driving down the expressway and you're about to go off a cliff,

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but there's an exit right before you get to the cliff, are you going to take the exit?

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I'm sure you are. I believe you're really dumb to drive off a cliff.

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Right? You're going to be destroyed. Your car will be destroyed.

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Even if you manage to survive, it will be horrible.

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So of course you're going to take the exit.

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So common sense, which is not at all common, I understand.

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But any person can figure out if there is an exit that keeps me away from doing that,

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what I don't want to do, I'm going to take the exit.

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And God expects us to do that.

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Okay? And so the C there is command.

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The C is command.

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So in these verses, what was the command of God?

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It was not to take the exit.

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We observe that from where it said he provides an exit.

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But what is the command that we read?

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It was in verse 13. It says this.

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It says, no temptation has overtaken you, but such as is common to man,

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God is faithful and will not allow you to be tempted beyond what you are able.

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But with temptation we will divide our way out.

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I'm sorry. It's not in verse 13.

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It's in verse 12. There we go. It says this.

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Therefore, let him who thinks he stands, take heed lest he fall.

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Okay? So the command is those who, and it goes down on the next line,

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those who think they stand, stand is the first word on the next line,

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take heed lest they fall.

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So what does it mean to take heed?

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Say it again?

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So if you're in a crowd of people, people are brushing up against you,

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you might put your hand on your wallet or you might put your wallet

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in a less available pocket or stuff it down your pants or something.

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Somebody could go after it, right?

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And so that's taking heed.

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You're taking the very simplest steps,

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which is to start with to pay attention to the circumstances of what's going on.

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when people are looking right at the person but not seeing the person.

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they are much more likely to know that you are paying attention.

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You're taking heed.

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You're aware.

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You're alert.

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sneak something past you, whatever.

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Most of the time, somebody picks a pocket.

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They do it by distraction.

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and then they pick your pocket or they're going to put something in the way

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that you're focused on, paying attention to that, that kind of thing.

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Take heed lest you fall.

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And who is it supposed to take heed?

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You think you're okay.

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You think you're doing what God wants you to do.

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It's pretty easy to do that.

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I feel that way sometimes when people around you are not doing what they're supposed to do.

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You're busy looking at what others are not doing and you think you're standing.

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You might even be comparing yourself to that.

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Yeah, they're screwing up.

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Yeah, they're getting into trouble.

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Yeah, they're acting out against the rules, whatever.

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And then he says if you think you're standing,

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that is when you need to pay attention.

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Alternatively, what does the person who is failing to stand need to do?

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It doesn't say that they should pay attention.

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What should they do?

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they're going to live for God, they're in sin, what should they do?

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Revenge. Revenge. Turn to God.

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So what do you do?

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You take your eyes off your circumstances and put them back on God.

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He came out of the boat.

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He literally was standing.

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Right? He literally was standing.

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Took his eyes off Jesus, looked at the storm, and started to sink.

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Jesus came over, pulled him up out of the water,

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and you better believe he was glad that Jesus was there.

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So while he was on the water, he focused on Jesus, he was standing fine.

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When he took his eyes off Jesus and looked at the storm, he began to fall.

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So what did he need to do?

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He needed to repent and turn back to God, put his eyes back on God.

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The more you are focused on God, the more likely you are to stand in God.

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That is the bottom line.

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Now does that mean you have works you have to do to stand?

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No. We're not talking about losing your salvation.

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You can sink in the water, you can die in the water and still go to heaven.

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But if we're talking about your ability to stand for God

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and do the right thing under those circumstances, which is what they did not do.

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And this is what he's talking about.

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They had an example, they did not complain,

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moaned against God instead of standing like they're supposed to.

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And theirs is an example for us.

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And this is one of the things that we should do.

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Take heed lest we fall if we think we are standing.

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If you already know you're falling, just repent.

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And then the last command, there's another command in there.

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So it's also, the A is also, and then there's a colon.

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What was the other command?

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Anybody remember it?

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It's the very last thing we read.

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We read the whole thing straight through.

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Leave from idolatry.

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Leave from idolatry.

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I couldn't get what Carl was saying, but that is the correct answer.

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So, leave from idolatry.

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Okay.

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And what is idolatry?

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Lots of men in the room, lots of adult women in the room know this answer.

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What is it?

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What is idolatry?

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I'm late on my student route.

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No, that's adultery.

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Oh.

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I'm not false god.

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Yes.

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There you go.

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False god, we're putting something about God, right?

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And so actually, let's be really super clear about this.

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You can trace it very simply to the Ten Commandments, and it says,

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Thou shalt have what?

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Finish it.

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No other god before me.

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No other gods before me.

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So does that mean you can't have any other god that is above God?

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Is that what it means?

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No.

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No.

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What does it actually mean?

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You can't have another god.

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Right.

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Because it's the Old English before me, as in, right now I am before R.J.

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We're not going anywhere.

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I'm not in front of him.

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I'm not over him.

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I'm not bigger than him.

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I'm not bigger than him, that's certainly not true, right?

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So, but I'm before him.

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And so when you put a god before god, it means you're bringing another god into your god's face.

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There's a great story about the Temple of Dagon, and they put the Ark of the Covenant in there,

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and Dagon fell down.

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And they were like, oh no, so they stood Dagon back up.

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And the next day they went and he fell down and he broke all the pieces.

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And so in their infinite wisdom, and their wanting to practice idolatry,

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they noticed that he fell across the threshold.

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So they created a tradition to never step on the threshold anymore.

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That's how they solved that problem.

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But the reason Dagon, the statue, kept falling down was because he was in the presence of the living god.

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And false gods fall down in the presence of the living god.

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And if you put a false god in the presence of the living god,

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and you put it there, and you keep putting it there, it's going to keep falling down.

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You're going to spend your whole life putting that false god or that thing,

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whatever it is that you're finding important, up.

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You're going to keep putting it up, keep putting it up, keep putting it up.

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Or keep worshiping it, telling everybody how awesome it is,

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and you thinking how awesome it is all the time, when it's always wrong.

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It's always wrong.

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Never should there be anything else in the god's face.

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So that means, for example, if you're supposed to be in worship,

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nothing interferes with worship.

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Now I say that, but I can worship at home.

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Well that's true, and nothing should interfere with that.

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That's part of your god's face.

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But when you have a local church, and you're supposed to be in your local church worshiping,

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that's where you are.

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And you say, but some people have to have a job, and they have to have a job,

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and a job interferes. I understand that.

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And then you should do everything in your power to ensure that it does not.

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That's how you make sure it's not in the god's face.

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Otherwise, if you're not, and you say, well, I've got to do it, it's up for me,

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you know, just the way it is, then that thing has entered the god's face.

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And then it becomes idolatry, when that thing becomes that much important.

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And how far does this go?

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It goes to matters of health.

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If your health is messed up because you messed it up,

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and you allow your health to keep you out of church,

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you are practicing idolatry.

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Or out of worship, or out of sharing the gospel, or out of reading your bible, or whatever.

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Because you're the one who allowed your health to be what it is.

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You caused it, you ate the wrong thing, took the drugs, stayed up too late,

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stayed up all night watching the book, whatever it is.

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And so when you do that, you're practicing idolatry,

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which is to put something else in your god's face.

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And it might be something good, family.

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Family is a great thing, but it doesn't belong in your god's face.

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Money is good. We need to pay our bills, we can tithe, we can give, we can help other people.

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It's good, not inherently good.

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The pursuit of money is the root of all evil.

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It can be useful, it can be a good thing, but you can't put it in the god's face.

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Only one thing belongs in the god's face, and that's God.

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Okay, so now we're going to go over to the right side.

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And I'll give you, I'm going to give you the first word, and then see if you can guess what goes in the box.

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Okay, the first phrase is, we are tempting.

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We are tempting.

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Now what do you think goes in the box?

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The word in the left box was God.

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What do you think the right box is?

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No.

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The pronoun is we.

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Self.

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Okay, self would work, or man, or humans, or me, or us.

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Right, so we're going to talk about us from these verses now and see what they say about us.

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First of all, we are tempted.

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Is there a human being ever to live who does not, is not subject to temptation, including Jesus Christ?

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No.

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We did last week in Tuesday night, we did, who wants to be a millionaire?

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We had a lot of kids, and we didn't have a lot of adults.

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We didn't want to be a millionaire.

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And one of the questions that came up while we were doing Wants to be a Millionaire was, was Jesus Christ ever tempted?

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That was the question.

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And it was something, there was something on the end of it, like was he ever tempted to disobey God or something like that?

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And the answer to that question is yes, he was tempted.

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Right?

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Humans are tempted without question.

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Everybody, there's nobody that's not tempted.

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Nobody.

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Adam and Eve were innocent, had never sinned, and they were tempted.

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Right?

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So you can be perfect until the moment you're tempted, and then you'll be tempted to sin.

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Everybody is tempted, without exception.

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In fact, it's common to man, says these verses.

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Alright?

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And so then the next part, again, it would be hard for you to come up with, but I'll start it.

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We are not, we are not, what do you think the O is?

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Take a guess?

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Overcome.

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We are not overcome by, and then the next two go with it.

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We are not overcome by what?

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The T is probably, you can guess that.

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Jason?

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Temptation.

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That's right.

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Okay?

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Temptation, we are not overcome by temptation, but what is the U?

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That was awesome.

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Yeah, that was really good.

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Okay.

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We are not overcome by, it starts with the U.

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The word is not in there, in the text, but its opposite is.

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It starts with the U.

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I don't know what the E stands for.

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I don't know what the E stands for.

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No, not, it's not.

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Okay, is means to be, but that's not what I mean.

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I mean, the opposite of this word is in the text.

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That's what I meant.

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So, in the text, what is temptation called?

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Plus all the temptations.

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Let me get it, I'll find it.

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No temptation is overtaking you, but such as is, what's the next word is?

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Common.

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Common.

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So the U is uncommon.

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Very good.

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Okay, so the U is uncommon.

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Look at that, we're two for two.

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Woo, we did good.

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Nice and melted.

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Yeah, it's 95 degrees in here.

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It's 95 degrees in here.

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Put it in the refrigerator later.

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Okay, so we are not overcome by uncommon temptation.

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This is the state.

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So the first part is the state, it's true, we are tempted, but also our state of being is we are not overcome by uncommon temptation.

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So this is what everybody says.

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Well, I was resisting the temptation pretty well until he said, she said, they did this happen, it went that way, I fell down, I got hurt one too many times.

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I was resisting the temptation pretty well, but the temptation became uncommon and it overcame me.

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That's a lie.

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The Bible says the opposite, you are not overcome by uncommon temptation.

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If you are overcome, you are overcome by common temptation, the same kind of temptation, the same generic nature of temptation that everybody else has.

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Say, but nobody has faced what I went through.

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Yes, because you are a unique individual.

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That would be true if your life story was the same as somebody else's.

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You could have the same exact life story, same date, same hour, two o'clock to seven, four o'clock to seven, six o'clock to seven on all the same dates.

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And yet it would still be unique because you're you and they're them.

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Right?

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That the fact that you're not uncommon, that you are uncommon does not make the temptation that you face uncommon.

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And that's what people want to say.

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I'm different.

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I'm unique.

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You don't know what I'm going through.

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You don't know what I'm facing.

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According to the Bible, no one is facing any temptation except that which is common to men.

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Did you know statistically that there are nine people on on base of the planet right now that look just about like you do?

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Like they could they could use your driver's license.

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That's how close they look.

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Statistically, that's true.

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And people have done research on it and tried to find those people like that.

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And it hands out.

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It actually works.

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You can find people that look but your odds of ever meeting anyone who looks just like you.

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It's very slim unless they happen to be like your son.

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Right.

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Other than that, it's very, very slim.

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And so we are all uncommon and all of our temptation is common.

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And if you can so that you could go out there and you could find people whose temptation is very, very, very similar to yours.

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They are facing some of the same problems, not the exact same problem, but some of the same problems you are.

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And you could search for our enough far and wide and you'd find somebody who has your same set of variable.

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Well, but even if you didn't, you just tend to do the same kinds of things, same sins, the same idolatry.

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And so we're all led in that direction by common temptation.

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So when you the next time you sin, don't go, oh, I almost made it.

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But it was uncommon.

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What I went through was uncommon.

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That's why I said that's just not true.

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You almost made it and you did make it because you didn't make the exit.

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You didn't find the way out that God had provided, whatever that was.

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I would say it's the same as the Bible verse where it says nothing is new under the sun.

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That's right.

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Plasiesties, nothing new under the sun.

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That's true also.

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So yeah, he's twisting.

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The enemy is twisting.

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The evil spirit is twisting.

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The world system is twisting thing.

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But really, they're not even new.

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OK.

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And so that goes next.

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We're working our way down there.

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W.C.U.

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And it's we.

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And the C is can.

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And what do you think the U is?

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Undue.

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Say it again.

476
00:25:40,000 --> 00:25:41,000
Undue.

477
00:25:41,000 --> 00:25:42,000
Nope.

478
00:25:42,000 --> 00:25:45,000
Last time you gave me a great big word, this time you gave me a real word.

479
00:25:45,000 --> 00:25:48,000
It's we can understand.

480
00:25:48,000 --> 00:25:50,000
We can understand.

481
00:25:50,000 --> 00:25:54,000
Remember that it says they were given as an example for us.

482
00:25:54,000 --> 00:25:59,000
And it says these things were written for us so that we would arrive at this conclusion.

483
00:25:59,000 --> 00:26:08,000
So if somebody writes something for you or shows you something, expecting you to arrive at a conclusion, then that means they assume you can understand.

484
00:26:08,000 --> 00:26:09,000
Right.

485
00:26:09,000 --> 00:26:13,000
You can draw the same inferences logically that that presents.

486
00:26:13,000 --> 00:26:15,000
And so we can understand.

487
00:26:15,000 --> 00:26:17,000
We can understand that we are faced with a common temptation.

488
00:26:17,000 --> 00:26:21,000
We can understand what the exit is and we can take the exit.

489
00:26:21,000 --> 00:26:22,000
And that's the next one.

490
00:26:22,000 --> 00:26:24,000
We can take the exit.

491
00:26:24,000 --> 00:26:26,000
You got it.

492
00:26:26,000 --> 00:26:30,000
We can take the exit.

493
00:26:30,000 --> 00:26:38,000
And more than that, the next one, we can escape and escape.

494
00:26:38,000 --> 00:26:39,000
You can say escape.

495
00:26:39,000 --> 00:26:41,000
Yes, I put endure.

496
00:26:41,000 --> 00:26:42,000
You can make it through.

497
00:26:42,000 --> 00:26:45,000
You can finish the race.

498
00:26:45,000 --> 00:26:49,000
I would even go so far as to say God expects us to do that.

499
00:26:49,000 --> 00:26:50,000
And then we've got three dues.

500
00:26:50,000 --> 00:26:59,000
The first due is the first command that we read in the other section.

501
00:26:59,000 --> 00:27:00,000
God gave this command.

502
00:27:00,000 --> 00:27:03,000
So we should take he perfect.

503
00:27:03,000 --> 00:27:04,000
That is exactly right.

504
00:27:04,000 --> 00:27:05,000
Take.

505
00:27:05,000 --> 00:27:06,000
Okay.

506
00:27:06,000 --> 00:27:10,000
And the second one is we should.

507
00:27:10,000 --> 00:27:11,000
We have to agree.

508
00:27:11,000 --> 00:27:12,000
We have.

509
00:27:12,000 --> 00:27:15,000
And I changed out my paper, say, please temptation.

510
00:27:15,000 --> 00:27:17,000
And I think taking the exit would be included.

511
00:27:17,000 --> 00:27:19,000
Yes, sir.

512
00:27:19,000 --> 00:27:22,000
Take heed.

513
00:27:22,000 --> 00:27:24,000
Which we said is the pay attention.

514
00:27:24,000 --> 00:27:27,000
Watch what's going on to be cautious.

515
00:27:27,000 --> 00:27:29,000
Be aware.

516
00:27:29,000 --> 00:27:30,000
Okay.

517
00:27:30,000 --> 00:27:33,000
And then the next two is the three temptation.

518
00:27:33,000 --> 00:27:40,000
And then the next do is I'll give you this one because it's a little tricky.

519
00:27:40,000 --> 00:27:49,000
So we should recognize the difference between.

520
00:27:49,000 --> 00:27:52,000
Common temptation.

521
00:27:52,000 --> 00:27:53,000
Okay.

522
00:27:53,000 --> 00:27:57,000
Which is what temptation is common temptation.

523
00:27:57,000 --> 00:27:58,000
All temptations, common temptation.

524
00:27:58,000 --> 00:28:01,000
So we should recognize there's been that.

525
00:28:01,000 --> 00:28:04,000
Which is externally.

526
00:28:04,000 --> 00:28:10,000
Externally originated all temptation is common temptation and is externally originated.

527
00:28:10,000 --> 00:28:11,000
So why do I say why?

528
00:28:11,000 --> 00:28:16,000
What I say we don't internally originate our own temptation, but that's where we feel temptation.

529
00:28:16,000 --> 00:28:17,000
Right.

530
00:28:17,000 --> 00:28:18,000
Is inside.

531
00:28:18,000 --> 00:28:19,000
I'm going to do it in a second.

532
00:28:19,000 --> 00:28:20,000
Yeah.

533
00:28:20,000 --> 00:28:21,000
Okay.

534
00:28:21,000 --> 00:28:24,000
Read the verse again or read that again.

535
00:28:24,000 --> 00:28:25,000
The blanks.

536
00:28:25,000 --> 00:28:26,000
Yeah.

537
00:28:26,000 --> 00:28:27,000
I'll do it one second.

538
00:28:27,000 --> 00:28:28,000
Okay.

539
00:28:28,000 --> 00:28:29,000
So why do I still say temptation?

540
00:28:29,000 --> 00:28:34,000
Common temptation is externally created even though the battle is internal.

541
00:28:34,000 --> 00:28:43,000
What is in us that relates to the temptation?

542
00:28:43,000 --> 00:28:45,000
Let's say.

543
00:28:45,000 --> 00:28:47,000
Say again, yeah.

544
00:28:47,000 --> 00:28:48,000
Fleshly lusts.

545
00:28:48,000 --> 00:28:50,000
We have our desires.

546
00:28:50,000 --> 00:28:51,000
The desires.

547
00:28:51,000 --> 00:28:53,000
That's that's what we put in.

548
00:28:53,000 --> 00:28:55,000
We bring the desire.

549
00:28:55,000 --> 00:29:03,000
The world offers a potential solution, a potential something to meet your desire.

550
00:29:03,000 --> 00:29:04,000
That's the temptation.

551
00:29:04,000 --> 00:29:07,000
You start thinking, well, I desire to feel better about myself.

552
00:29:07,000 --> 00:29:11,000
I need to be some chocolate or I need to be some alcohol.

553
00:29:11,000 --> 00:29:12,000
All right.

554
00:29:12,000 --> 00:29:13,000
I need to feel.

555
00:29:13,000 --> 00:29:16,000
I had to tell me that she feels free when she drinks.

556
00:29:16,000 --> 00:29:17,000
So that's why she loves to drink.

557
00:29:17,000 --> 00:29:19,000
Well, that's all it is.

558
00:29:19,000 --> 00:29:24,000
You have a desire and the world offers you something that looks like it will meet the desire.

559
00:29:24,000 --> 00:29:26,000
That's the common temptation.

560
00:29:26,000 --> 00:29:27,000
Right.

561
00:29:27,000 --> 00:29:28,000
Trina's nodding her head.

562
00:29:28,000 --> 00:29:29,000
Yes, that's exactly right.

563
00:29:29,000 --> 00:29:30,000
Okay.

564
00:29:30,000 --> 00:29:33,000
And so but that is externally originated.

565
00:29:33,000 --> 00:29:35,000
The temptation is externally originated.

566
00:29:35,000 --> 00:29:37,000
So your food is not in you.

567
00:29:37,000 --> 00:29:38,000
Your drugs are not in you.

568
00:29:38,000 --> 00:29:40,000
Your time consumption is not in you.

569
00:29:40,000 --> 00:29:41,000
None of that is external.

570
00:29:41,000 --> 00:29:44,000
It's probably you can even reasonably say it's not even your own idea.

571
00:29:44,000 --> 00:29:45,000
Right.

572
00:29:45,000 --> 00:29:47,000
It comes externally originated.

573
00:29:47,000 --> 00:29:48,000
The temptation is.

574
00:29:48,000 --> 00:29:52,000
But we have to know our difference between externally originated common temptation.

575
00:29:52,000 --> 00:29:54,000
So we'll go back to the top and help Jason out here for a second.

576
00:29:54,000 --> 00:29:55,000
Okay.

577
00:29:55,000 --> 00:29:58,000
We're going to recognize the difference.

578
00:29:58,000 --> 00:30:00,000
Are you with me, Jason?

579
00:30:00,000 --> 00:30:01,000
Yeah.

580
00:30:01,000 --> 00:30:13,000
Between common temptation, which is externally originated.

581
00:30:13,000 --> 00:30:17,000
And now we're going into what we have to know the difference.

582
00:30:17,000 --> 00:30:24,000
Self-induced temptation, which is.

583
00:30:24,000 --> 00:30:25,000
What is that?

584
00:30:25,000 --> 00:30:26,000
Oh.

585
00:30:26,000 --> 00:30:28,000
Originated.

586
00:30:28,000 --> 00:30:35,000
Oh, originated and self-induced temptation, which is.

587
00:30:35,000 --> 00:30:37,000
And this is a word you would not normally use.

588
00:30:37,000 --> 00:30:38,000
A kin.

589
00:30:38,000 --> 00:30:39,000
Which means it's very similar.

590
00:30:39,000 --> 00:30:41,000
It's in the same family as.

591
00:30:41,000 --> 00:30:45,000
To entrapment.

592
00:30:45,000 --> 00:30:47,000
So what does that mean?

593
00:30:47,000 --> 00:30:48,000
What did I just say?

594
00:30:48,000 --> 00:30:51,000
Somebody interpret my gibberish.

595
00:30:51,000 --> 00:30:53,000
I'm going to take a stab at it.

596
00:30:53,000 --> 00:30:55,000
Common temptation.

597
00:30:55,000 --> 00:30:57,000
Externally originated.

598
00:30:57,000 --> 00:30:59,000
Got to know the difference between that.

599
00:30:59,000 --> 00:31:04,000
And internally or self-induced temptation, something I do myself.

600
00:31:04,000 --> 00:31:06,000
Which is akin to entrapment.

601
00:31:06,000 --> 00:31:09,000
What do I mean?

602
00:31:09,000 --> 00:31:12,000
Inducing it on the same little piece of stuff.

603
00:31:12,000 --> 00:31:15,000
I'm going to take a stab at it.

604
00:31:15,000 --> 00:31:16,000
Okay.

605
00:31:16,000 --> 00:31:20,000
I got everything, but the middle piece, inducing your own.

606
00:31:20,000 --> 00:31:21,000
Sin or temptation.

607
00:31:21,000 --> 00:31:22,000
Yes.

608
00:31:22,000 --> 00:31:23,000
So she's saying.

609
00:31:23,000 --> 00:31:25,000
If you induce it yourself.

610
00:31:25,000 --> 00:31:26,000
You wind up stuck.

611
00:31:26,000 --> 00:31:28,000
That make sense?

612
00:31:28,000 --> 00:31:31,000
So I go like, okay, I'm sitting here.

613
00:31:31,000 --> 00:31:33,000
Temptation comes common temptation.

614
00:31:33,000 --> 00:31:34,000
It's external.

615
00:31:34,000 --> 00:31:36,000
I can solve your problem for you.

616
00:31:36,000 --> 00:31:37,000
I'll take care of you.

617
00:31:37,000 --> 00:31:39,000
I'll meet that need or that desire that you have.

618
00:31:39,000 --> 00:31:40,000
No, no.

619
00:31:40,000 --> 00:31:41,000
I got to do it.

620
00:31:41,000 --> 00:31:42,000
You then go.

621
00:31:42,000 --> 00:31:45,000
I see within myself a need.

622
00:31:45,000 --> 00:31:51,000
I devise a plan and the plan is ungodly.

623
00:31:51,000 --> 00:31:57,000
Then you eliminated the single most important thing, which was what?

624
00:31:57,000 --> 00:31:59,000
You took God out of the equation.

625
00:31:59,000 --> 00:32:03,000
You said I've got a solution that I can enact, but I'm taking God.

626
00:32:03,000 --> 00:32:05,000
So that's idolatry.

627
00:32:05,000 --> 00:32:07,000
You did not take heed.

628
00:32:07,000 --> 00:32:08,000
You were standing previously.

629
00:32:08,000 --> 00:32:09,000
You did not take heed.

630
00:32:09,000 --> 00:32:11,000
You didn't pay attention.

631
00:32:11,000 --> 00:32:12,000
Instead, you say, well, I got a plan.

632
00:32:12,000 --> 00:32:16,000
I'm going to take God out and practice idolatry.

633
00:32:16,000 --> 00:32:21,000
And you're going to fall automatically because you brought something else into your God's face.

634
00:32:21,000 --> 00:32:24,000
I submit to you, let's say you said, well, I'm just going to buy a car.

635
00:32:24,000 --> 00:32:26,000
That's going to solve my problem.

636
00:32:26,000 --> 00:32:30,000
And you can say the car you brought in your God's face.

637
00:32:30,000 --> 00:32:31,000
Nope.

638
00:32:31,000 --> 00:32:32,000
Okay.

639
00:32:32,000 --> 00:32:33,000
You say the money.

640
00:32:33,000 --> 00:32:34,000
The money is what I used.

641
00:32:34,000 --> 00:32:35,000
I brought that into my God's face.

642
00:32:35,000 --> 00:32:38,000
I should have known better than that because I can't have God in my family.

643
00:32:38,000 --> 00:32:40,000
That's what I brought in, but that's not it.

644
00:32:40,000 --> 00:32:44,000
So what did you bring into your God's face at that moment?

645
00:32:44,000 --> 00:32:45,000
Say it again.

646
00:32:45,000 --> 00:32:47,000
So kind of.

647
00:32:47,000 --> 00:32:49,000
The need.

648
00:32:49,000 --> 00:32:50,000
Kind of.

649
00:32:50,000 --> 00:32:51,000
What?

650
00:32:51,000 --> 00:32:52,000
The wants.

651
00:32:52,000 --> 00:32:53,000
Your self, your needs, your wants.

652
00:32:53,000 --> 00:32:56,000
But it's really what, because those were always there.

653
00:32:56,000 --> 00:32:59,000
What?

654
00:32:59,000 --> 00:33:00,000
Kind of.

655
00:33:00,000 --> 00:33:03,000
What did you do with the desire?

656
00:33:03,000 --> 00:33:05,000
What did you do with the wants, the need, the self?

657
00:33:05,000 --> 00:33:07,000
What?

658
00:33:07,000 --> 00:33:11,000
Didn't God control it, didn't God control this desire in you?

659
00:33:11,000 --> 00:33:12,000
What?

660
00:33:12,000 --> 00:33:13,200
No.

661
00:33:13,200 --> 00:33:15,000
Jesus said, well, there's nothing more to my desire that I can do,

662
00:33:15,000 --> 00:33:16,000
but he wants me to do.

663
00:33:16,000 --> 00:33:18,000
I don't go to God on ideas.

664
00:33:18,000 --> 00:33:21,000
I just do also the words, and as long as I am still doing my do's and don'ts or

665
00:33:21,000 --> 00:33:22,000
even call.

666
00:33:22,000 --> 00:33:24,000
The sink is what I'm used to in the other world and mlbg.

667
00:33:24,000 --> 00:33:26,000
The other world, yes, what will get me?

668
00:33:26,000 --> 00:33:28,000
What will put me in that situation?

669
00:33:28,000 --> 00:33:30,000
And he wants me to do the hard thing.

670
00:33:30,000 --> 00:33:31,000
What is theơl?

671
00:33:31,000 --> 00:33:32,000
What I go a little closer to, right?

672
00:33:32,000 --> 00:33:34,000
And he's going to do some of the hard work and I can do some exercises,

673
00:33:34,000 --> 00:33:37,040
He said if they eat it, in the day they eat it, they'll surely die.

674
00:33:37,040 --> 00:33:40,880
But she said, when God said, God said if we touch it, we'll surely die.

675
00:33:40,880 --> 00:33:42,640
See what's happening there?

676
00:33:42,640 --> 00:33:43,680
She's reasoning.

677
00:33:43,680 --> 00:33:44,880
And what does the very next verse say?

678
00:33:44,880 --> 00:33:48,320
It says that she looked at the fruit and she saw that it was good to eat.

679
00:33:48,320 --> 00:33:50,000
Were all the fruits in the garden good to eat?

680
00:33:50,000 --> 00:33:50,880
Yes.

681
00:33:50,880 --> 00:33:54,720
And she also figured that it was good for the knowledge, or it was good for wisdom.

682
00:33:54,720 --> 00:33:56,560
She saw that it was good for wisdom.

683
00:33:56,560 --> 00:33:58,240
She reasoned.

684
00:33:58,240 --> 00:34:03,840
And so what man does, it really makes him stuck, it really makes him dead, basically.

685
00:34:03,840 --> 00:34:08,240
He brings reason into the God space.

686
00:34:08,240 --> 00:34:13,440
And once you reason your way to your meeting your desires, your lust, your selfishness,

687
00:34:13,440 --> 00:34:17,600
whatever, when you reason and you start following that road, God is not there.

688
00:34:17,600 --> 00:34:19,360
God gave you reason.

689
00:34:19,360 --> 00:34:20,000
What?

690
00:34:20,000 --> 00:34:22,800
Somebody think about Acts 17 for a moment.

691
00:34:22,800 --> 00:34:26,560
God orchestrates our life, the boundaries of our life, what is where we are and everything,

692
00:34:26,560 --> 00:34:28,400
so that we might.

693
00:34:28,400 --> 00:34:31,920
Why did God give us reason?

694
00:34:31,920 --> 00:34:34,080
To know what to do.

695
00:34:34,080 --> 00:34:37,600
Yep, to know not what to do, but what?

696
00:34:37,600 --> 00:34:41,200
To know what.

697
00:34:41,200 --> 00:34:42,960
So that we would.

698
00:34:42,960 --> 00:34:43,840
Look to Him.

699
00:34:43,840 --> 00:34:44,960
Look to Him, right?

700
00:34:44,960 --> 00:34:49,680
So that we could figure out, like if you look at the all of creation, all of creation testifies,

701
00:34:49,680 --> 00:34:54,800
if you went into a courtroom and the opposition brought 1000 witnesses that said the guy was

702
00:34:54,800 --> 00:35:00,160
innocent, nobody on the jury concludes he's not innocent at that point.

703
00:35:00,160 --> 00:35:00,480
Why?

704
00:35:00,480 --> 00:35:03,680
Because reason dictates, the evidence is there, right?

705
00:35:03,680 --> 00:35:06,320
And creation is like that, it's testifying for God all the time.

706
00:35:06,320 --> 00:35:12,240
You have to be unreasonable to decide that creation is not talking about God, that God

707
00:35:12,240 --> 00:35:13,440
didn't create it, that kind of thing.

708
00:35:13,440 --> 00:35:14,160
It has to be unreasonable.

709
00:35:14,160 --> 00:35:14,960
And atheists do that.

710
00:35:14,960 --> 00:35:19,360
They're unreasonable and they have big untenable arguments for a lack of His existence.

711
00:35:20,240 --> 00:35:25,520
God gave us reason so that we could conclude, that we could come to the moment of realizing

712
00:35:25,520 --> 00:35:26,240
He's there.

713
00:35:26,240 --> 00:35:27,600
He wants us and He yearns for us.

714
00:35:27,600 --> 00:35:32,000
And also it says, notice that He would never far away in the first place, right?

715
00:35:32,000 --> 00:35:32,560
Because why?

716
00:35:32,560 --> 00:35:34,480
Because our reason was flawed.

717
00:35:34,480 --> 00:35:37,680
It got messed up by our sin and our loss of our desires, etc.

718
00:35:37,680 --> 00:35:42,160
But if you continue to reason your way to what you want outside God, you are trapped.

719
00:35:42,160 --> 00:35:43,600
You will never be saved.

720
00:35:43,600 --> 00:35:47,440
If a person would say, I'm going to be saved by my own strength, by my own intellect, by

721
00:35:47,440 --> 00:35:50,560
what I know, by what I learned, by what I learned of the Bible, that's what's going

722
00:35:50,560 --> 00:35:51,120
to save me.

723
00:35:51,120 --> 00:35:52,560
All of that will take them straight to hell.

724
00:35:52,560 --> 00:35:57,600
But if they will submit their reason to God so that He will cleanse it, purify it of all

725
00:35:57,600 --> 00:36:04,320
unrighteousness, now every time common temptation comes, they can use that reason to find that

726
00:36:04,320 --> 00:36:05,520
escape and take it.

727
00:36:05,520 --> 00:36:08,080
It may not be easy, right?

728
00:36:08,080 --> 00:36:12,080
And the deeper in you are with some things, the more uncommon the temptation feels.

729
00:36:12,080 --> 00:36:15,920
But it's really just common temptation that everybody might face.

730
00:36:15,920 --> 00:36:20,720
It may be unique for you, for your specific circumstances, but it's just common temptation.

731
00:36:20,720 --> 00:36:24,640
Is reason necessary for you to go through?

732
00:36:24,640 --> 00:36:26,240
I would say yes, right?

733
00:36:26,240 --> 00:36:28,080
Because reason is where we make our decision.

734
00:36:30,000 --> 00:36:30,880
So I agree with that.

735
00:36:30,880 --> 00:36:32,960
That's kind of part of why you get to reason.

736
00:36:32,960 --> 00:36:33,280
Yep.

737
00:36:33,280 --> 00:36:34,560
To do all of this.

738
00:36:34,560 --> 00:36:37,040
But you couldn't be like God if you didn't have reason.

739
00:36:39,920 --> 00:36:41,360
So He made us in His own image.

740
00:36:41,360 --> 00:36:43,120
We have to have reason, right?

741
00:36:43,120 --> 00:36:43,840
You couldn't love.

742
00:36:44,800 --> 00:36:49,280
You can't choose to love because sometimes you would choose not to and then you'd be stuck

743
00:36:49,280 --> 00:36:51,120
forever choosing not to because you can't choose back.

744
00:36:53,040 --> 00:36:55,920
So yeah, reason is an absolute necessity for a lot of reasons.

745
00:36:57,200 --> 00:36:57,760
Okay.

746
00:36:57,760 --> 00:36:59,040
Anyway, all right.

747
00:37:00,320 --> 00:37:04,240
So we're just going to go through, we're going to go down to the left-hand side.

748
00:37:04,240 --> 00:37:07,040
And you'll notice there's a pair of binoculars there.

749
00:37:07,040 --> 00:37:11,040
And on my paper it says looks like, and it should say that on yours as well, looks like.

750
00:37:11,040 --> 00:37:12,240
This is what this looks like.

751
00:37:13,200 --> 00:37:13,680
Okay.

752
00:37:13,680 --> 00:37:15,520
And so number one starts with a C.

753
00:37:15,520 --> 00:37:20,720
So if we're doing this thing that God has called us to, we ought to be, starts with a C.

754
00:37:20,720 --> 00:37:23,520
If you think you're standing, you should be.

755
00:37:25,120 --> 00:37:25,520
Praise?

756
00:37:25,520 --> 00:37:26,560
Praise?

757
00:37:26,560 --> 00:37:30,080
Praise like maybe, but no, no, that's not the word I was going for.

758
00:37:30,080 --> 00:37:30,560
Say it again.

759
00:37:32,000 --> 00:37:32,720
Oh, I like that.

760
00:37:32,720 --> 00:37:33,360
Consistent.

761
00:37:33,360 --> 00:37:33,760
Yeah.

762
00:37:33,760 --> 00:37:35,760
But that wasn't the word I was going for either.

763
00:37:35,760 --> 00:37:36,240
Cautious.

764
00:37:36,240 --> 00:37:39,040
I was going to say take heed, right?

765
00:37:39,040 --> 00:37:39,920
It says take heed.

766
00:37:39,920 --> 00:37:41,520
If you think you're standing, take heed.

767
00:37:41,520 --> 00:37:42,560
So we should be cautious.

768
00:37:43,920 --> 00:37:44,080
All right.

769
00:37:44,080 --> 00:37:46,320
We're going to go a little faster, going to run a little bit low on time.

770
00:37:47,120 --> 00:37:47,440
All right.

771
00:37:47,440 --> 00:37:51,680
So the next one is eyes open or aware.

772
00:37:56,160 --> 00:37:56,880
Okay.

773
00:37:56,880 --> 00:38:00,720
So this is what it looks like to be doing what it is that we're being called to in these verses.

774
00:38:00,720 --> 00:38:06,080
We're cautious, realizing that temptation is common, realizing there is a way out.

775
00:38:06,080 --> 00:38:09,600
We're keeping our eyes open and aware of our surroundings, aware of our way out.

776
00:38:09,600 --> 00:38:13,600
And then three, undistracted.

777
00:38:13,600 --> 00:38:15,600
Let me see.

778
00:38:15,600 --> 00:38:17,600
Cautious.

779
00:38:17,600 --> 00:38:22,400
We have cautious and then we have eyes open or aware, and then we have undistracted.

780
00:38:22,400 --> 00:38:25,600
Why is the undistracted important?

781
00:38:25,600 --> 00:38:29,600
To be focused.

782
00:38:29,600 --> 00:38:31,600
Yeah, so you're going to be focused on God, right?

783
00:38:31,600 --> 00:38:33,600
So we're not distracted by the other things in this life.

784
00:38:33,600 --> 00:38:35,600
That's kind of temptation, right?

785
00:38:35,600 --> 00:38:41,600
But in the moment that the exit comes, if you're not paying attention, you won't take it.

786
00:38:41,600 --> 00:38:43,600
If you don't take it, then there's no other way.

787
00:38:43,600 --> 00:38:45,600
God made a way.

788
00:38:45,600 --> 00:38:47,600
He may make another way, but he may not make another way.

789
00:38:47,600 --> 00:38:49,600
You're promised one, not seven.

790
00:38:49,600 --> 00:38:51,600
So get out when the getting is good.

791
00:38:51,600 --> 00:38:55,600
Cautious, eyes open, aware, undistracted.

792
00:38:55,600 --> 00:39:01,600
And then four is prepare to run or escape.

793
00:39:01,600 --> 00:39:13,600
There is a moment in time where common temptation will so surround you that it will take a pretty extreme effort for you to avoid falling to that common temptation.

794
00:39:13,600 --> 00:39:17,600
Can anybody think of a Bible example real quick?

795
00:39:17,600 --> 00:39:19,600
Yeah, that would be good.

796
00:39:19,600 --> 00:39:21,600
But he didn't run, did he?

797
00:39:21,600 --> 00:39:23,600
What was his escape?

798
00:39:23,600 --> 00:39:25,600
What was his exit?

799
00:39:25,600 --> 00:39:27,600
What exit did Jesus use?

800
00:39:27,600 --> 00:39:29,600
The scripture.

801
00:39:29,600 --> 00:39:31,600
The word. That's right.

802
00:39:31,600 --> 00:39:34,600
He used the word. And that is a great tool under these circumstances.

803
00:39:34,600 --> 00:39:39,600
But even then, you know, there is a more blatant example.

804
00:39:39,600 --> 00:39:41,600
Does anybody remember the story of Joseph?

805
00:39:41,600 --> 00:39:43,600
Mm hmm.

806
00:39:43,600 --> 00:39:47,600
What happened that he fled from temptation?

807
00:39:47,600 --> 00:39:53,600
It was the...

808
00:39:53,600 --> 00:40:03,600
Potiphar's wife, right? The Roman governor, Kai, rich dude who owned Joseph.

809
00:40:03,600 --> 00:40:05,600
And what did Potiphar's wife do?

810
00:40:05,600 --> 00:40:12,600
She tried to seduce him against his will, even though he was trying.

811
00:40:12,600 --> 00:40:15,600
What did he do? He was like, no, the God would not want me to do this. Right.

812
00:40:15,600 --> 00:40:19,600
And he had to flee. And when he fled, he fled without his garment.

813
00:40:19,600 --> 00:40:23,600
She grabbed onto it and he couldn't... Now, he could have smacked her.

814
00:40:23,600 --> 00:40:25,600
He could have grabbed her and wrestled her through to the ground, whatever.

815
00:40:25,600 --> 00:40:27,600
All of which would have been horrible for him. Right.

816
00:40:27,600 --> 00:40:30,600
That would have been terrible because that was way outside of his social ability to do so.

817
00:40:30,600 --> 00:40:33,600
He would have gone up in jail and he would probably get... He did any of that.

818
00:40:33,600 --> 00:40:36,600
Instead, he fled and left his garment there.

819
00:40:36,600 --> 00:40:43,600
There was a time where that... it may get that extreme that you have to flee and the escape is not comfortable.

820
00:40:43,600 --> 00:40:45,600
It's very inconvenient.

821
00:40:45,600 --> 00:40:48,600
Or you're with friends and you're at a bar

822
00:40:48,600 --> 00:40:50,600
and you already told them you're not going to drink or whatever

823
00:40:50,600 --> 00:40:53,600
and somebody buys you a drink and hands it to you.

824
00:40:53,600 --> 00:40:55,600
And that's extreme temptation. Like, I just take this one drink.

825
00:40:55,600 --> 00:40:58,600
Whatever. It's no big deal. I know I told them I wouldn't let them do it.

826
00:40:58,600 --> 00:41:00,600
Whatever. Just one drink. It's no big deal.

827
00:41:00,600 --> 00:41:02,600
And you may have to literally leave.

828
00:41:02,600 --> 00:41:05,600
I'm leaving. Why do you say, no, don't leave. No, don't leave.

829
00:41:05,600 --> 00:41:08,600
I won't offer you another drink. No, I'm leaving. That's it.

830
00:41:08,600 --> 00:41:12,600
I'm beyond my limit at this point. Right. I'm going.

831
00:41:12,600 --> 00:41:15,600
I already told you I wasn't drinking. You offered me after. I already told you I wasn't drinking.

832
00:41:15,600 --> 00:41:18,600
And they can say you're unreasonable or whatever,

833
00:41:18,600 --> 00:41:20,600
but that was your moment of escape.

834
00:41:20,600 --> 00:41:23,600
And because they can say, OK, they take that drink away.

835
00:41:23,600 --> 00:41:29,600
And 15 minutes later, another friend or some guy at the bar offers you a drink

836
00:41:29,600 --> 00:41:31,600
and you're back in the same boat.

837
00:41:31,600 --> 00:41:34,600
Right. Because you realize at that point, I've got to say, I'm out of here.

838
00:41:34,600 --> 00:41:36,600
I take the exit. I'm taking the exit.

839
00:41:36,600 --> 00:41:38,600
That could be your example.

840
00:41:38,600 --> 00:41:40,600
You may not have that. It may not be your temptation.

841
00:41:40,600 --> 00:41:42,600
It might be something else. Right. But whatever it is,

842
00:41:42,600 --> 00:41:45,600
it's a moment where you think of it and that leads us to number five.

843
00:41:45,600 --> 00:41:50,600
It starts with a D. In that moment, you have to be.

844
00:41:50,600 --> 00:41:54,600
Want to take a stab at it?

845
00:41:54,600 --> 00:41:57,600
In a moment, you have to be decisive.

846
00:41:57,600 --> 00:42:00,600
That's right. You have to be decisive.

847
00:42:00,600 --> 00:42:04,600
He's trying to kill you. Killing.

848
00:42:04,600 --> 00:42:06,600
I'm not talking about people. Right.

849
00:42:06,600 --> 00:42:08,600
I'm talking about temptation.

850
00:42:08,600 --> 00:42:09,600
He's trying to kill you.

851
00:42:09,600 --> 00:42:12,600
He's trying to lead you to sin. Sin leads to death. Right.

852
00:42:12,600 --> 00:42:14,600
And so you have to be decisive.

853
00:42:14,600 --> 00:42:16,600
That's when you might have to walk out and say, I can't do that.

854
00:42:16,600 --> 00:42:18,600
Sorry, I told you before I wasn't going to be able to do this.

855
00:42:18,600 --> 00:42:20,600
Now I can't do that. Right.

856
00:42:20,600 --> 00:42:22,600
And it might mean hurt.

857
00:42:22,600 --> 00:42:24,600
You might be risking a friendship or whatever,

858
00:42:24,600 --> 00:42:26,600
but standing up for Jesus is always the right thing.

859
00:42:26,600 --> 00:42:29,600
And again, if you don't take the exit, you could be in a real hurt,

860
00:42:29,600 --> 00:42:31,600
in a real bad spot and stuck.

861
00:42:31,600 --> 00:42:34,600
And even at that point, it becomes you can say, I'm not going to take that drink

862
00:42:34,600 --> 00:42:37,600
and I'm going to do this to make sure I'm going to stand up at the bar.

863
00:42:37,600 --> 00:42:40,600
I'm going to yell, nobody here buy me a drink. I do not drink.

864
00:42:40,600 --> 00:42:42,600
How many people will buy you a drink if you stand up at a bar and yell,

865
00:42:42,600 --> 00:42:45,600
I can't drink, I'm an alcoholic, I'll never drink again?

866
00:42:45,600 --> 00:42:48,600
Probably quite a few over the space of the night,

867
00:42:48,600 --> 00:42:52,600
because they want to see you crash like they're crashing or whatever.

868
00:42:52,600 --> 00:42:55,600
Or people just ask, I'm sure, what's wrong?

869
00:42:55,600 --> 00:42:57,600
Why are you being like that?

870
00:42:57,600 --> 00:42:59,600
And they're just trying to be nice to you.

871
00:42:59,600 --> 00:43:02,600
And I'm just using an elegant drink, but it could be sweets,

872
00:43:02,600 --> 00:43:06,600
it could be a vest that you're on, it could be money, it could be anything.

873
00:43:06,600 --> 00:43:09,600
I quit smoking, that was the most annoying thing.

874
00:43:09,600 --> 00:43:10,600
Offering cigarettes?

875
00:43:10,600 --> 00:43:12,600
Yeah, for the first year, I was just sharing,

876
00:43:12,600 --> 00:43:14,600
I was joking about this just like last night, right before.

877
00:43:14,600 --> 00:43:17,600
For the first year, year and a half, we would go down to Piglia's Pizza

878
00:43:17,600 --> 00:43:19,600
and Bowling Green after I gave up soda.

879
00:43:19,600 --> 00:43:23,600
And they have red cream soda in the can, which is like, that's not soda,

880
00:43:23,600 --> 00:43:26,600
that is like awesome.

881
00:43:26,600 --> 00:43:28,600
Red cream soda is awesome, I still remember the taste of it now.

882
00:43:28,600 --> 00:43:31,600
And one time she bought me one and said it in front of me,

883
00:43:31,600 --> 00:43:33,600
she ordered one from the waitress and said it in front of me.

884
00:43:33,600 --> 00:43:37,600
And I had had soda for, I don't know, 10 months, a year, year and a half, whatever.

885
00:43:37,600 --> 00:43:41,600
And then she was like, oh no, no, I'm sorry.

886
00:43:41,600 --> 00:43:44,600
She took it away, but the point is I could have just drank it.

887
00:43:44,600 --> 00:43:46,600
So you got to be decisive.

888
00:43:46,600 --> 00:43:56,600
And then six, CTWS is compare temptation with slavery.

889
00:43:56,600 --> 00:44:00,600
Remember that these people that we're talking about were rescued from slavery,

890
00:44:00,600 --> 00:44:05,600
life slavery, now they're falling into temptation

891
00:44:05,600 --> 00:44:11,600
and God is not able to work amongst them the way he really wants to.

892
00:44:11,600 --> 00:44:13,600
And it gets kind of ugly.

893
00:44:13,600 --> 00:44:16,600
A bunch of them fell and died because of it.

894
00:44:16,600 --> 00:44:18,600
Okay, now you'll notice there's one more box over there.

895
00:44:18,600 --> 00:44:19,600
This is the crux.

896
00:44:19,600 --> 00:44:21,600
I'm just going to walk you through it.

897
00:44:21,600 --> 00:44:23,600
It's all filled out for you already.

898
00:44:23,600 --> 00:44:24,600
Okay.

899
00:44:24,600 --> 00:44:27,600
But this is where, go ahead.

900
00:44:27,600 --> 00:44:32,600
Yes.

901
00:44:32,600 --> 00:44:33,600
Yes.

902
00:44:33,600 --> 00:44:34,600
Okay.

903
00:44:34,600 --> 00:44:35,600
Yeah.

904
00:44:35,600 --> 00:44:37,600
So it's they died.

905
00:44:37,600 --> 00:44:40,600
The top two are they died.

906
00:44:40,600 --> 00:44:41,600
I can't remember what the other one's are.

907
00:44:41,600 --> 00:44:42,600
I don't have it.

908
00:44:42,600 --> 00:44:43,600
We're going to take a stop.

909
00:44:43,600 --> 00:44:45,600
Does that have a HHWW in the box?

910
00:44:45,600 --> 00:44:48,600
I'm talking about next first.

911
00:44:48,600 --> 00:44:55,600
I think it's in the text.

912
00:44:55,600 --> 00:45:00,600
Yeah.

913
00:45:00,600 --> 00:45:05,600
Just just over the border.

914
00:45:05,600 --> 00:45:06,600
This is like the hour.

915
00:45:06,600 --> 00:45:07,600
Okay.

916
00:45:07,600 --> 00:45:08,600
Well, anyway, I'll figure out what those things are.

917
00:45:08,600 --> 00:45:09,600
We're going to finish it.

918
00:45:09,600 --> 00:45:10,600
We're running out of time.

919
00:45:10,600 --> 00:45:12,600
So we're in the bottom box on the right hand side.

920
00:45:12,600 --> 00:45:15,600
Salvation.

921
00:45:15,600 --> 00:45:16,600
Right.

922
00:45:16,600 --> 00:45:18,600
Wrestling.

923
00:45:18,600 --> 00:45:22,600
So anybody, anybody familiar with wrestling at all?

924
00:45:22,600 --> 00:45:23,600
You've seen watch wrestling.

925
00:45:23,600 --> 00:45:26,600
So at the beginning of wrestling, how does wrestling start?

926
00:45:26,600 --> 00:45:27,600
High school or college wrestling?

927
00:45:27,600 --> 00:45:28,600
How does it start?

928
00:45:28,600 --> 00:45:29,600
Are you not close?

929
00:45:29,600 --> 00:45:30,600
No.

930
00:45:30,600 --> 00:45:31,600
Not close.

931
00:45:31,600 --> 00:45:33,600
So one guy's down on the ground.

932
00:45:33,600 --> 00:45:35,600
Another guy's on top of him.

933
00:45:35,600 --> 00:45:36,600
Why is that?

934
00:45:36,600 --> 00:45:38,600
And then the next time they go, what happens?

935
00:45:38,600 --> 00:45:39,600
The other guy's on the bottom.

936
00:45:39,600 --> 00:45:40,600
They switch.

937
00:45:40,600 --> 00:45:42,600
Why does it start with somebody on the bottom?

938
00:45:42,600 --> 00:45:47,600
Well, it's trying to pin them.

939
00:45:47,600 --> 00:45:48,600
Yeah.

940
00:45:48,600 --> 00:45:49,600
The goal is to try to pin.

941
00:45:49,600 --> 00:45:51,600
That's the main way to win is to try to pin somebody.

942
00:45:51,600 --> 00:45:52,600
Right?

943
00:45:52,600 --> 00:45:55,600
So what does that person on the bottom have to do?

944
00:45:55,600 --> 00:45:56,600
Escape.

945
00:45:56,600 --> 00:45:58,600
You've got to escape.

946
00:45:58,600 --> 00:46:01,600
They call it a reverse.

947
00:46:01,600 --> 00:46:03,600
You can get up and get control or you can escape.

948
00:46:03,600 --> 00:46:06,600
I mean, it's a half point for escape or a point for reverse or something like that.

949
00:46:06,600 --> 00:46:09,600
I don't know if wrestling will, but the bottom line is that's how it starts.

950
00:46:09,600 --> 00:46:11,600
So in wrestling, you have holds.

951
00:46:11,600 --> 00:46:12,600
OK.

952
00:46:12,600 --> 00:46:13,600
It's kind of like temptation.

953
00:46:13,600 --> 00:46:15,600
Will you have temptation?

954
00:46:15,600 --> 00:46:17,600
You will have temptation.

955
00:46:17,600 --> 00:46:18,600
Right?

956
00:46:18,600 --> 00:46:24,600
So in wrestling, one of the things they have to learn is how to handle holds because they're coming.

957
00:46:24,600 --> 00:46:25,600
Holds are coming.

958
00:46:25,600 --> 00:46:29,600
And what do they use to handle a hold?

959
00:46:29,600 --> 00:46:33,600
Say it again.

960
00:46:33,600 --> 00:46:34,600
Yeah.

961
00:46:34,600 --> 00:46:38,600
But an actual hold in wrestling, you use an escape.

962
00:46:38,600 --> 00:46:39,600
Right?

963
00:46:39,600 --> 00:46:44,600
So, for example, if somebody has their hand clutched around your neck and their fingers are clutched together,

964
00:46:44,600 --> 00:46:48,600
really the only way to break that is to pull their fingers apart, for example.

965
00:46:48,600 --> 00:46:49,600
Right?

966
00:46:49,600 --> 00:46:50,600
Or they have their hand behind their back.

967
00:46:50,600 --> 00:46:54,600
The only way to break that is for you to flip and slip back around so you can put your hand down.

968
00:46:54,600 --> 00:46:56,600
So they have moves that they use.

969
00:46:56,600 --> 00:47:00,600
I don't know wrestling well, but they have moves that they use because they know they will be in holds.

970
00:47:00,600 --> 00:47:07,600
And the goal is to reverse and become on top so that you're in charge.

971
00:47:07,600 --> 00:47:10,600
This is what God wants to do.

972
00:47:10,600 --> 00:47:11,600
OK.

973
00:47:11,600 --> 00:47:13,600
So for us, we face salvation.

974
00:47:13,600 --> 00:47:14,600
We have temptation.

975
00:47:14,600 --> 00:47:15,600
Those are going to happen.

976
00:47:15,600 --> 00:47:16,600
That's like the wrestling.

977
00:47:16,600 --> 00:47:20,600
And then we have holds and we have to take the exit.

978
00:47:20,600 --> 00:47:21,600
But we need to reverse.

979
00:47:21,600 --> 00:47:23,600
We take the exit and get out.

980
00:47:23,600 --> 00:47:24,600
OK.

981
00:47:24,600 --> 00:47:28,600
And for God's purposes, He wants to lead us to victory.

982
00:47:28,600 --> 00:47:29,600
Right?

983
00:47:29,600 --> 00:47:30,600
So I want you to think for a moment.

984
00:47:30,600 --> 00:47:31,600
We're going to finish on.

985
00:47:31,600 --> 00:47:33,600
I'm going to try to see if I can bring this home here.

986
00:47:33,600 --> 00:47:34,600
OK.

987
00:47:34,600 --> 00:47:38,600
So we talked about how common temptation externally generated.

988
00:47:38,600 --> 00:47:39,600
Remember?

989
00:47:39,600 --> 00:47:43,600
Common temptation is common to everybody and externally generated.

990
00:47:43,600 --> 00:47:48,600
But it meshes with our desires and our wants, our self.

991
00:47:48,600 --> 00:47:49,600
Right?

992
00:47:49,600 --> 00:47:59,600
So like let's say you want to feel I want to feel stronger today to see a commercial to buy a vitamin supplement or to buy a take a drug or whatever, because you feel tired.

993
00:47:59,600 --> 00:48:00,600
So you take that, you feel better.

994
00:48:00,600 --> 00:48:01,600
So that's a temptation.

995
00:48:01,600 --> 00:48:03,600
Meets a need in you.

996
00:48:03,600 --> 00:48:05,600
Temptation says it will meet a need in you.

997
00:48:05,600 --> 00:48:13,600
But our goal is not to let temptation get a grip on us to get a hold of us.

998
00:48:13,600 --> 00:48:14,600
Right.

999
00:48:14,600 --> 00:48:16,600
So then we would say, well, no, I'm resistant.

1000
00:48:16,600 --> 00:48:17,600
I'm resistant.

1001
00:48:17,600 --> 00:48:21,600
I'm continuing to wrestle, but I'm still on the bottom.

1002
00:48:21,600 --> 00:48:22,600
Right.

1003
00:48:22,600 --> 00:48:23,600
So temptation keeps coming against me.

1004
00:48:23,600 --> 00:48:25,600
Keep putting holds on me.

1005
00:48:25,600 --> 00:48:26,600
I keep finding an escape.

1006
00:48:26,600 --> 00:48:27,600
I'm still on the bottom.

1007
00:48:27,600 --> 00:48:32,600
So is that a good life to live that we face common temptation all the time to find the exit?

1008
00:48:32,600 --> 00:48:34,600
That's really not a very fun life.

1009
00:48:34,600 --> 00:48:37,600
That's not the abundant life that Jesus gave us.

1010
00:48:37,600 --> 00:48:44,600
The goal then after taking a certain number of escapes, so for a really good escaping wrestler, nobody can hold him.

1011
00:48:44,600 --> 00:48:47,600
They get a hold on him and he's gone in a minute.

1012
00:48:47,600 --> 00:48:48,600
Right.

1013
00:48:48,600 --> 00:48:49,600
Next thing you know, he's on top of them.

1014
00:48:49,600 --> 00:48:51,600
Now they might look at Iran and they might be on top of him again.

1015
00:48:51,600 --> 00:48:54,600
But if they get a hold on him, he's got the escape.

1016
00:48:54,600 --> 00:49:08,600
And what it is is you get so aware, you're so ready, skilled, disciplined to take those escapes that the various holes that the enemy could get on you to become people.

1017
00:49:08,600 --> 00:49:09,600
They can't really do it.

1018
00:49:09,600 --> 00:49:10,600
Right.

1019
00:49:10,600 --> 00:49:18,600
And when we see God provide victory in an area that provides us with the knowledge that we can win in that area.

1020
00:49:18,600 --> 00:49:22,600
So, for example, you have a temptation like I had lying.

1021
00:49:22,600 --> 00:49:24,600
I was a liar, very proficient liar.

1022
00:49:24,600 --> 00:49:27,600
I could have probably been a con man, but I was very self-inhibited.

1023
00:49:27,600 --> 00:49:28,600
I was very worried about what people would think of me.

1024
00:49:28,600 --> 00:49:38,600
So I couldn't do it as well and really profit from it because even though I could lie and fool people all the time, I couldn't bring myself to do that because of what people would think of me if they did find out.

1025
00:49:38,600 --> 00:49:39,600
Right.

1026
00:49:39,600 --> 00:49:42,600
So 25 years of my life, I got to be a pretty good liar.

1027
00:49:42,600 --> 00:49:48,600
Then after two and a half years after I got saved, that there was a moment in time where God said that's just not going to happen anymore.

1028
00:49:48,600 --> 00:49:50,600
So now I'm very careful.

1029
00:49:50,600 --> 00:49:51,600
Have I ever lied since then?

1030
00:49:51,600 --> 00:49:52,600
Yeah, probably.

1031
00:49:52,600 --> 00:49:53,600
In fact, I'm sure.

1032
00:49:53,600 --> 00:49:54,600
Right.

1033
00:49:54,600 --> 00:50:02,600
So the point is, but I'm very careful about it, but I can't live my life being very careful and always looking for the outs.

1034
00:50:02,600 --> 00:50:03,600
Right.

1035
00:50:03,600 --> 00:50:04,600
Looking for the escapes.

1036
00:50:04,600 --> 00:50:10,600
I have to embrace something about me that makes it know that I'm in victory.

1037
00:50:10,600 --> 00:50:17,600
So what is it about a person that makes it so they don't have to wonder whether they're going to lie anymore?

1038
00:50:17,600 --> 00:50:18,600
It's the truth.

1039
00:50:18,600 --> 00:50:20,600
It's integrity.

1040
00:50:20,600 --> 00:50:22,600
It's being comfortable with who you are.

1041
00:50:22,600 --> 00:50:23,600
You don't have to make things up.

1042
00:50:23,600 --> 00:50:24,600
You don't have to embellish things.

1043
00:50:24,600 --> 00:50:26,600
There's no story to it or whatever.

1044
00:50:26,600 --> 00:50:30,600
So what to get it down to the simple.

1045
00:50:30,600 --> 00:50:34,600
Jesus wants to be fully present in us.

1046
00:50:34,600 --> 00:50:37,600
And he wants he's brought us out of slavery.

1047
00:50:37,600 --> 00:50:39,600
He wants to keep us free.

1048
00:50:39,600 --> 00:50:41,600
He wants us to live abundantly.

1049
00:50:41,600 --> 00:50:43,600
I don't mean rich, right.

1050
00:50:43,600 --> 00:50:51,600
But abundantly in spiritual gifts, abundantly in peace, abundantly in hope, abundantly in love and faithfulness, all the fruits of the spirit, et cetera.

1051
00:50:51,600 --> 00:50:53,600
He wants us to be there.

1052
00:50:53,600 --> 00:50:55,600
So it's not this constant, I'm on top.

1053
00:50:55,600 --> 00:50:56,600
I'm on the bottom.

1054
00:50:56,600 --> 00:50:57,600
I'm on top.

1055
00:50:57,600 --> 00:50:58,600
I'm on the bottom.

1056
00:50:58,600 --> 00:50:59,600
I need an escape.

1057
00:50:59,600 --> 00:51:00,600
I've got an escape.

1058
00:51:00,600 --> 00:51:01,600
Now I've got to go back on the bottom again.

1059
00:51:01,600 --> 00:51:03,600
That's not the life that he bought for you.

1060
00:51:03,600 --> 00:51:06,600
The life that he bought for you is temptation is going to come.

1061
00:51:06,600 --> 00:51:07,600
I'm aware of that.

1062
00:51:07,600 --> 00:51:10,600
When I think I'm standing, I'm going to pay attention.

1063
00:51:10,600 --> 00:51:13,600
I'm keep my eyes on Jesus and do what I'm supposed to do.

1064
00:51:13,600 --> 00:51:18,600
And I won't get to the point where I have to just take that last escape or that last out.

1065
00:51:18,600 --> 00:51:22,600
But if I do, I already know it's there and I already know how to take it.

1066
00:51:22,600 --> 00:51:25,600
That's the life that he's leading us to.

1067
00:51:25,600 --> 00:51:26,600
But it takes time.

1068
00:51:26,600 --> 00:51:30,600
So maybe you have some temptation that you think is a pretty big deal and it comes on you when you're unaware.

1069
00:51:30,600 --> 00:51:33,600
You put yourself in position and whatever.

1070
00:51:33,600 --> 00:51:35,600
And you're failing sometimes to take the exit.

1071
00:51:35,600 --> 00:51:39,600
Over time, you will learn what the exits are and you will take them.

1072
00:51:39,600 --> 00:51:47,600
And the sooner you do, the sooner you will embrace the free, abundant life that Jesus has provided for you.

1073
00:51:47,600 --> 00:51:50,600
He said, I did not come.

1074
00:51:50,600 --> 00:51:53,600
I don't come as the thief to kill, steal or destroy.

1075
00:51:53,600 --> 00:51:54,600
So the thief comes like that.

1076
00:51:54,600 --> 00:51:57,600
But I've come to command life and have it more abundantly.

1077
00:51:57,600 --> 00:52:01,600
And he said to those Jews who believed in him, come follow me.

1078
00:52:01,600 --> 00:52:04,600
And then you shall know the truth and the truth will set you free.

1079
00:52:04,600 --> 00:52:06,600
He's not about making you a wrestler.

1080
00:52:06,600 --> 00:52:10,600
He's about making you a victor.

1081
00:52:10,600 --> 00:52:15,600
Right. And these verses remind us they were already victors.

1082
00:52:15,600 --> 00:52:26,600
I mean, seriously, if you saw what they saw, would you complain against God after he wiped out every firstborn, the boils on everything, all the water was turned to blood.

1083
00:52:26,600 --> 00:52:27,600
That's darkness.

1084
00:52:27,600 --> 00:52:33,600
Every living being that could be eaten for food destroyed in the entire nation except amongst the Israelites.

1085
00:52:33,600 --> 00:52:36,600
After you saw that, would you complain?

1086
00:52:36,600 --> 00:52:45,600
I submit to you that if you've experienced Jesus Christ as your Lord and Savior, there's a moment in time the Holy Spirit came in, you regenerated, you truly became, you realized I'm saved.

1087
00:52:45,600 --> 00:52:52,600
Then you have had an even bigger miracle than seeing what God has done, had done to the Egyptians.

1088
00:52:52,600 --> 00:52:54,600
So I submit to you that we probably would.

1089
00:52:54,600 --> 00:52:55,600
We probably would.

1090
00:52:55,600 --> 00:52:59,600
Unless we were practicing this.

1091
00:52:59,600 --> 00:53:00,600
Unless we were cautious.

1092
00:53:00,600 --> 00:53:02,600
Unless we were eyes open and aware.

1093
00:53:02,600 --> 00:53:03,600
Unless we were undistracted.

1094
00:53:03,600 --> 00:53:06,600
Unless we were prepared to run or escape from temptation if necessary.

1095
00:53:06,600 --> 00:53:07,600
Unless we were decisive.

1096
00:53:07,600 --> 00:53:12,600
Unless we realized giving in to temptation was tantamount to slavery.

1097
00:53:12,600 --> 00:53:14,600
Again.

1098
00:53:14,600 --> 00:53:18,600
So now we know how to do it.

1099
00:53:18,600 --> 00:53:21,600
And we just got to practice it, practice it, practice it, so we get really good at it.

1100
00:53:21,600 --> 00:53:23,600
And that's what that was all about.

1101
00:53:23,600 --> 00:53:25,600
And that's what Paul was writing for the Corinthians.

1102
00:53:25,600 --> 00:53:26,600
That's what that's all about.

1103
00:53:26,600 --> 00:53:29,600
Will you ever be without sin in this lifetime?

1104
00:53:29,600 --> 00:53:31,600
Probably not.

1105
00:53:31,600 --> 00:53:35,600
But do you have to heal the common temptation?

1106
00:53:35,600 --> 00:53:36,600
No.

1107
00:53:36,600 --> 00:53:42,600
God never provides a temptation that's anything but common demand and with it he always provides a way out.

1108
00:53:42,600 --> 00:53:43,600
Alright.

1109
00:53:43,600 --> 00:53:44,600
So that concludes the lesson.

1110
00:53:44,600 --> 00:53:45,600
That concludes the text.

1111
00:53:45,600 --> 00:53:50,600
Somehow or other I will figure out, Cameron, what the HHWW was in the middle.

1112
00:53:50,600 --> 00:53:52,600
We'll figure that out.

1113
00:53:52,600 --> 00:53:53,600
We're going to close in prayer.

1114
00:53:53,600 --> 00:53:55,600
I'm going to give the teenagers some candy.

1115
00:53:55,600 --> 00:53:59,600
But we do have lots of snack cakes in the cafeteria.

1116
00:53:59,600 --> 00:54:02,600
That doesn't mean everybody go eat two or three snack cakes or whatever.

1117
00:54:02,600 --> 00:54:07,600
But at least one could be good if you're able.

1118
00:54:07,600 --> 00:54:09,600
I'm not going to eat one today.

1119
00:54:09,600 --> 00:54:14,600
So any questions?

1120
00:54:14,600 --> 00:54:16,600
Testimony?

1121
00:54:16,600 --> 00:54:19,600
Concerns?

1122
00:54:19,600 --> 00:54:28,600
Well, praise the Lord that we are able to endure this arrangement that God has made on our behalf.

1123
00:54:28,600 --> 00:54:41,600
Father in heaven, we do thank you that as Christians, and I pray that everybody here truly has believed in you and your son Jesus as a received a Lord and a Savior in Jesus.

1124
00:54:41,600 --> 00:54:44,600
And I pray, Lord, that at the same time we have put no one else in our God's face.

1125
00:54:44,600 --> 00:54:46,600
No false Jesus.

1126
00:54:46,600 --> 00:54:47,600
Money.

1127
00:54:47,600 --> 00:54:51,600
Not things of this life that entice.

1128
00:54:51,600 --> 00:54:52,600
But just you.

1129
00:54:52,600 --> 00:54:54,600
You be God.

1130
00:54:54,600 --> 00:55:00,600
And we would recognize you're God and we would follow you with with all that we have.

1131
00:55:00,600 --> 00:55:09,600
And then as you keep pouring into us, that means more and more and more and more ability and more capability and more decisiveness and more ability to be cautious.

1132
00:55:09,600 --> 00:55:11,600
And the list just grows.

1133
00:55:11,600 --> 00:55:21,600
Father, I praise you that you set it up that even people who have sinned against you, who have fallen into sin, the patient and death, that even folks like that.

1134
00:55:21,600 --> 00:55:25,600
And that was me.

1135
00:55:25,600 --> 00:55:28,600
Can accept Jesus Christ as Lord and Savior before and again.

1136
00:55:28,600 --> 00:55:39,600
And now the word says that we have a mediator for us and so I don't want us to think that being cautious is about being afraid, being afraid that we would sin.

1137
00:55:39,600 --> 00:55:44,600
We have to accept that we probably will sin again today maybe even in this hour.

1138
00:55:44,600 --> 00:55:50,600
But, Lord sins of ignorance and sins of intentionality are two totally different things.

1139
00:55:50,600 --> 00:55:58,600
Sins that we do because we haven't figured it out yet versus sins that we do because we figured out a way to get our get what we want without you in the mix.

1140
00:55:58,600 --> 00:56:01,600
A totally, totally different things.

1141
00:56:01,600 --> 00:56:08,600
And so Father, I just pray that as we face common temptation that we will take heed that we may stand.

1142
00:56:08,600 --> 00:56:15,600
That we will look for when necessary the escape and that we will decisively take it.

1143
00:56:15,600 --> 00:56:21,600
Lord, make us able to discern, give us wisdom and give us the peace to know that you've got us no matter what.

1144
00:56:21,600 --> 00:56:29,600
If there would be somebody in this room who has not accepted Jesus Christ as their Lord and Savior, or they know they're walking in sin, they know they're giving an temptation.

1145
00:56:29,600 --> 00:56:37,600
Then Lord I pray that you will allow them in your great grace to repent right now and to be healed.

1146
00:56:37,600 --> 00:56:41,600
You are our God and you are more than capable of this.

1147
00:56:41,600 --> 00:56:51,600
Oh, Dagon fell down and they picked him up. Oh, Dagon fell down and he broke up and then they wouldn't step on the threshold anymore out of respect for Oh, Dagon who was nothing at all.

1148
00:56:51,600 --> 00:57:00,600
Or at the best was a demon or an evil spirit who doesn't begin to compare with the God of the universe in whom we serve and who has served me today.

1149
00:57:00,600 --> 00:57:15,600
And we pray that Jesus name. Amen.