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Welcome to the Potter's House Salmon Arm podcast. We are a Bible-Believing Church located in

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beautiful British Columbia, Canada. We are proudly part of the Christian Fellowship Ministries

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with 3,000 churches around the world. We are a church focused on world evangelism, discipleship

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and church planting. Here we will share recent sermons from P.H.S.A. Church and other sermons

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from throughout our fellowship. I am Pastor David Bickford and I will be your host for this

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podcast. I thank you for listening today and we hope these messages are a blessing to you and

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bring you closer to God. Hello and welcome back to the podcast, the P.H.S.A. or Potter's House

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Salmon Arm podcast. I am Pastor David Bickford and today's message is entitled,

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The Temptor Body, Mind and Soul. We are going to be looking at how we go about being tempted. We

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will look at how Jesus tempted and what we can take from the scripture in order to be able to

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stand up against the temptation that is ever present in the world that we all deal with

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and how to better align ourselves with the way that Christ dealt with temptation.

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And so with that I found a pretty interesting illustration. It's about the Union Pacific Railroad

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and at one point there was a, you know, a labored trestle bridge being built across a large canyon

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in the west. And wanting to test the bridge, the builder loaded a train with enough extra cars

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and equipment to double its normal payload. The train then was driven to the middle of a bridge

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where it stayed an entire day. One worker asked, are you trying to break the bridge?

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No, the builder replied, I am trying to prove that the bridge won't break. In the same way,

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the temptations that we see Jesus faced weren't designed to see if he would sin, but rather to

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prove he couldn't and that he wouldn't sin, that he wouldn't break down against the temptation.

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And also it was an illustration, it was part of his way of showing through example ship how we

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should deal with the temptation that we come across in our own lives. So let's look at that,

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you know, that portion of scripture, which is, you know, where we're going to pull from. It's

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going to be from Luke chapter 4, 1 through 13, the temptations of Jesus. So if you're following

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along in your Bible, it's again, Luke 4, 1 through 13. And Jesus, full of the Holy Spirit, returned

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from the Jordan and was led by the Spirit into the wilderness for 40 days being tempted by the devil

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and he ate nothing during those days. And when they were ended, he was hungry. The devil said to him,

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if you are the son of God, command the stone to become bread. And Jesus answered him, it is written,

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man shall not live by bread alone. And the devil took him up and showed him all the kingdoms of

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the world in a moment of time and said to him, to you, I will give this authority and their glory,

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for it has been delivered to me and I give it to whom I will. If you then will worship me,

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it will all be yours. And Jesus answered him, it is written, you shall worship the Lord your God

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and him only shall you serve. And he took him to Jerusalem and set him on the pinnacle of the temple

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and said to him, if you are the son of God, throw yourself down from here, for it is written, he

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will command his angels concerning you to guard you and on their hands they will bear you up,

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lest you strike your foot against the stone. And Jesus answered him, it is said, you shall not put

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the Lord your God to the test. And when the devil had ended every temptation, he departed from him

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until an opportune time. So before we jump in, we're going to think about what's the point of this.

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I just want to interject with a little bit of some of my early morning thoughts as I record this,

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is that we all battle with temptation in our lives. And I don't want anybody to walk away

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from this message feeling like if you've succumbed to the temptations of the world that you were

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written off, but rather that this is an example. We look at the entire Bible as a one flowing

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story from the beginning to the end with Jesus Christ as our Savior. It's important to understand

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that God shows us the way that we can overcome temptation, but there is always room for grace,

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as long as we're able to humble ourselves, repent, and come back to Christ. And so that's something

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that I really want to emphasize is that if you failed, as we all have failed, and we all fall

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short of the glory of God, we are aspiring to the perfection that is Christ, but it's not believable

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to ever achieve that perfection on this side of heaven. But it is important to hold that standard

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so that we have something that is bigger than ourselves to look towards. And that is the example

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that we see with Jesus Christ. If we look at the Old Testament, we see kings that we know to have

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been good kings, because we're told in the scripture they were good kings. They followed

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the law, and they followed the spirit that God was setting forth for them. There's not a lot

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of good kings, but we're told. But even with those good kings, there were failings within their life.

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But what always set them apart was their humility and their willingness to turn back to God,

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and to humble themselves, and to repent, and to make a declaration that, Lord, I can't do this

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without you. And so I want to make sure that there is that empathy put into this message first,

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that even though we're going to look at ways of overcoming temptation, we also want to know that

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there's always repentance for failing. And there's always going to be a process of restoration. Now,

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you might not always be able to be restored back to everything that you might have lost because

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of failure. And we see that scripturally as well when we look at the story of Moses and how when

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he struck the rock rather than speaking to it, that sin that he had committed prevented him from

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being able to enter into the promised land with the rest of Israel. But that didn't take away from

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his relationship with God entirely. He was able to still meet with God face to face and be the

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representative for God to the people of Israel until his death. But again, just empathetically

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want to make sure that we understand that there is always the potential of restoration,

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even when we succumb to temptation. But let's go ahead and let's look at what's the point.

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We tend to argue with ourselves constantly about what is the point. Why must we struggle? Why must

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we face challenges, difficulties, and troubles in our life? It is a common thought throughout all

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mankind. And it is something that separates us as sentient beings from other of God's creation.

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The animals and plants of flora fauna, they don't trouble themselves with these concerns.

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This isn't at the very root of our human existence. This is something that sets us apart

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tremendously from anything else that we see in nature. And this is at the very root and is part

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of the point. Jesus came to earth fully human and fully God in order to endure the hardships of

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humanity without sin and to show us that in him we can not only be redeemed but have an example

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of the purpose or the ability or the way to overcome temptation. Not to be weakened by

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temptation but be tested and tempered by it over time. So as metallurgy developed, it became

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understood that if you add carbon to iron, iron ore, you can make it a stronger metal. And that

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is what we know today as steel. Steel is then forged in the fire and tempered in order to be

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hardened but still remain flexible enough to bend when needed. And the idea of tempering is that

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it's going to be able to flex but then still snap back to its intended shape without any loss of

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strength. It's a really interesting thing that we have come to understand that there are different

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ways of tempering or annealing steel for different purposes. And the trials we go through as

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Christians are for that purpose. Some of us are tempered for strength, hardness, sharpness. Others

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are heat treated with flexibility, compassion, and empathy as the goal. We're all part of the

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body of Christ and it's still one family knitted together after all. So keep this in mind as we

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progress this morning that we are all tempted, we are all challenged, and we are all tested. We are

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all also built and designed for a godly purpose. Second Timothy 2, 20 through 21. Now in a great

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house there are not only vessels of gold and silver but also of wood and clay and some honorable use

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and some for dishonorable. Therefore if anyone cleanses himself from what is dishonorable, he

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will be a vessel for honorable use set apart as holy useful to the master of the house ready for

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every good work. So let's jump in and work through our text. Temptation is not of the Lord. Temptation

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has a goal. The goal is to cause sin and condemnation in the person whom it is directed.

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That is why Eve was tempted in the garden. Satan tempts us to sin and therefore separate ourselves

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from God, whereas God tests us in order to strengthen us and bring us closer to him. So

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the first thing we'll look at is physical temptation. The devil made Jesus focus on his physical body.

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The goal was to draw Jesus' attention away from God and onto his hunger and as we know he was

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fasting prior to this exchange and Jesus would certainly have been very hungry after 40 days

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without food. In verse three it says the devil said to him, if you are the son of God command this

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stone to become bread and Jesus answered him, it is written man shall not live by bread alone.

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This temptation was a material temptation and can be looked at as the lust for material things.

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Think of it this way, you could hunger for food, drink, money or the newest toys. The ability to

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gain all the stuff you could ever want. All you have to do is kneel to the powers of be. This is

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what a lot of our current culture is fighting about. Bend to our worldview and everything will

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be yours. How did Jesus deal with this temptation? In Ephesians 6, 16 through 17 it says, in all

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circumstances take up the shield of faith with which you can extinguish the flaming darts of

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the evil one and take the helmet of salvation and the sword of the spirit which is the word of God.

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In Deuteronomy 8, 3 it says, and he humbled you and let you hunger and fed you with manna,

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which you did not know nor did your fathers know. And he might make you know that man does not live

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by bread alone, but man lives by every word that comes from the mouth of the Lord. This is something

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very hard for us to understand in our day and age. We are supposed to live by every word that comes

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from the mouth of the Lord. That means we're supposed to be sustained by his word and through

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the word. This is why we fast and why when you fast you're supposed to maintain a happy count.

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And it's not like the Sadducees and Pharisees. The verse from Deuteronomy that Jesus cited was to

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highlight our dependence on God. Today many of us depend only on ourselves or the government to

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provide us what we need to live. We are to be content with what God provides knowing that in

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faith he will take care of us just as he does the birds in the field. So an interesting aside here

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is that if we're supposed to be sustained by his word and through prayer and if we're a Christian

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and we're not praying, if we're not setting time aside for reading the word of God and then

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meditating on the word of God through prayer or in our prayer time, then really what are we

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depending on? Are we truly depending on God if we neglect his word or if we neglect our time's prayer?

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Things to consider. What feels right is not always going to be right according to God.

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Again this is one of the reasons why we need to wash ourselves in the word and why we need to

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spend time and contemplation in prayer. Feeding your material desires can separate you from

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God. It can separate us from God and our dependence on him. So as we strive at shopping and

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looking at all the things that we wish to have or going out to eat big and getting fancy dinners and

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all of this stuff that in and of themselves are not necessarily wrong, but they can become quite

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wrong when they take away from our dependence on God. When they separate us from God, if you are

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filling your life with so much activity that you're not spending time in the word and spending time

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in prayer, then you're missing the point. We need to have those times in prayer and those times in

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the word because that's how we build that dependence upon God. That way when we're presented

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with troubles in our life, we're falling back onto the word. We're falling back onto that

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relationship with God and that's what a lot of times the right way to do it is to be

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in the word and to be in the word and to be in the word. The other thing that the rest of the

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world doesn't understand is that it is a real relationship with God. I was speaking with a

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friend a few days ago, maybe last week, and we were talking about how the world has this wrong.

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They think oftentimes that Christians think that they're better than other people. Oh, well,

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they're missing the point. They've almost got the entire idea upside down. It's not that we think

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we're better than anybody else. In fact, if you're truly saved, if you're truly a convert to Christ,

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it's the knowledge that you are not better. It's the knowledge that you're a fallen sinful creature

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that drives you to cling to the word of God, that drives you to cling to Christ in prayer

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and in that quiet time of meditation. Really, when the world is thinking, oh,

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you think you're better than me, it's like, no, I've just admitted that I'm not.

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It's a huge revelation that I don't want to gloss over. The reason why we depend on God is the

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recognition that we're fallen and we need him. The last thing to consider in this section is that the

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pleasure that comes from giving into temptation is always short-lived. A short-lived dopamine or

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serotonin hit, when you are constantly searching your next hit, whether it comes from buying stuff

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or whether it comes from even addicts who abuse drugs understand this, is that it's short-lived

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and you always have to go back for more. The next time the hits get, the usage is going to have to

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be more. You see this in purchasing stuff. It's just a funny thing. Another friend sent me

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some pictures of a boat and I was like, oh, did you buy it? Because he had a placard with the boat's

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information, but I couldn't quite see the boat's information. He was laughing. He said, no, man,

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that boat is worth more than my house. But people who fall into this idea of I need to get the next

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big thing, they'll do that. They'll start buying stuff and putting themselves in a precarious

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situation because they need the next best thing. This came about in our family just recently

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because we got a notification from Telus, our cell phone provider, and it was like, hey, we'll

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give you a deal if you go on payments for the iPhone 15. We started thinking about it. We're

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like, well, it might not be a bad idea and maybe it isn't in your situation, but we started thinking

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about, well, if we put the money away that this is going to cost us because my phone is working

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quite fine, we can just buy the phone outright down the line and then we're not stuck with this

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additional payment. The joy that you're going to get from getting that new phone right now

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is going to be short-lived, but then when you're looking at your phone bill being

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quite a bit more every month, you're going to have this negative effect.

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After giving in to the temptation, oh, just get the quick thing real fast. Whereas if you're

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prudent and you saved for it, then you'd probably be able to get it even cheaper,

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get a refurbished one that comes direct from Apple so it's just as good but way cheaper

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than what you would have been paying for if you went on payments, which is typically true.

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The next thing we're going to look at is we're going to look at the matter of the mind. The next

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the matter of the mind. So the next attempt of temptation that Jesus came about was a battle

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for the mind. He says that I can give you the world and all the authority. All you have to do

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is bow to me. That's an attractive thing. We get this in our own lives. This is a song that we hear

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today with leaders from every corner of the earth. I am your guy. I am your girl. I can get you what

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you want. Fame, money, power, prestige, authority. All that is required is that you acknowledge me

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as your overseer. Here is the passage from Luke again in verse five. And the devil took him up

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and showed him all the kingdoms of the world in a moment of time and said to him, to you I will give

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all authority and their glory for it has been delivered to me and I give it to whom I will.

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If you then will worship me, it will all be yours. And Jesus answered him, it is written,

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you shall worship the Lord your God and him only shall you serve. I find it interesting that this

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is the same message that is used throughout history by petty and tin pot dictators throughout

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history. Nebuchadnezzar, Caesar, Kim Jong-un all demanded their vassals to bow down to them as

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gods. Nero persecuted the Christians heavily because they would not partake in this kind of

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worship. We know that in the end time the devil will bestow power to the Antichrist too in Revelation

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13 too. And the beast that I saw was like a leopard, its feet were like a bear and its mouth was

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like a lion's mouth and to it the dragon gave his power and his throne and great authority.

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But we also know that this is short-lived authority and that one that only leads to destruction.

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And Deuteronomy 6, 13, 14, it is the Lord your God you shall fear. Him you shall serve and by his

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name you shall swear. You should not go after other gods, the gods of people who are around you.

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As we look at society today, we see people in the political realm trying to aspire to power to grab

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things and they think that they're powerful. But then you look above that local power source,

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so I live in Canada, and so you look above the PMO's office, the Prime Minister's office,

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who governs Canada. And Canada being, you know, it's an important country in the world stage but

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it's still a small country in a lot of ways. We have a lot of land mass but, you know, we're a

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small country. We have about 40 million people. Whereas the United States, you know, where I was

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born in the United States, they have again, they have way more people but it's like 350 roughly.

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government, the President holds very limited power on the entire world stage because then you go

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over to Europe and you've got the European Union nations. You've got above that, you've got the

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WHO, World Health Organization, and you've got all these different entities, you know, banking

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industries like the World Economic Forum that control lots of power behind the scenes. And

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within that realm, you have, you know, some rich folks who donate to all these political parties

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within these different countries. So it's always about bowing to power. Our local politicians

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bow to power of the politicians above them that bow to power to politicians above them and

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eventually, you know, they're all bowing to some power that's not even, you know, that's not a man.

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We have to understand that as Christians, the power that we're, the only power that we're

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bowing to is God and, you know, in Him Christ our Savior.

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It's an important thing to understand. So when Jesus, you know, tells him that it's written,

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you shall worship the Lord your God and Him only you shall serve, that's the core tenant of

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Christianity is that when you give your life over to Him, He is your King, He's your Lord,

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He's your Savior, and the rest of your life is supposed to be designed about, say, the Lord,

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the rest of your life is supposed to be designed about saying, okay, well, I'll support causes,

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political or secular, but it better be in line with what my King wants.

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Right? So that's what Jesus is telling, you know, the devil is that we serve the Lord.

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We serve the Lord our God, that's it. And so we use the scripture we use like Deuteronomy,

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you know, to basically fall back on in these weak times and say, no, no, I don't go after other

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gods. It's like in verse 14, I don't go after other gods, the gods of people who are around you.

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No, I, it is the Lord that I fear, and it is Him that I serve, and it is only by His name that I

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will swear. So the last point is the pride of life. In chapter four of Matthew, you can see another

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account of this story, but I like that Luke, you know, that in Luke, the second and third temptations

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are switched in placement. And the reason I prefer Luke's order is simple. The first

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temptation temptations or the first two temptations were a struggle of power by Satan. He was

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attempting to persuade Jesus, but provoking him to use his power, flaunting his own power, command

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these rocks into bread, I can give you all authority. The third temptation is slightly

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different. It's now that the devil strives to manipulate the word of God and twist it in order

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to get Jesus to falter. How often does this happen to us? How often will someone try to persuade us

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to give into material lust? And when that works, they might say, I have the authority to do it.

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It's okay. I give you permission to do this or that. I can, you know, I can have experience,

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you know, I can honestly say that I've experienced both these things in my life. Long ago, when I was

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in the military, it's always getting longer and longer every time I talk about the military. I'm

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like the college athlete that only talks about the heyday when they were throwing the game-winning

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touchdown or shooting, you know, the game-winning, you know, shots and basketball. So a long time

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ago when I was in the military, it was very common to have guys try to do this. And I think it's

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important to take this away from the internet or whatever. And then it's not a good idea to

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do this again and get me to drink or try and get me to swear. Because when you actually are a

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convert to Christ—and I emphasize that again, convert, because our fellowship is made up of

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converts—you know, we might not even grow as fast as other churches at times because we're

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not out seeking to, you know, just fill our churches with people who have other churches. If

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you know, praise God to you for that and that you would be an active member of

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the church that you're in. But we strive to find people who are not

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saved and bring them the gospel message because we want to build our

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churches on converts. So as a convert in the military, I got in

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the military, I wasn't saved for like the first year I was there, I was living

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like the normal life that all young Marines do, which means lots of drinking,

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lots of violence, lots of debauchery, and I was ruining myself. So anyway, I

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get powerfully saved and I'm a convert to Christ and so in the

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military they constantly try to get you to drink or try to get you to swear.

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that I swear or drink and I really mean that. They'd be like, you have to do this

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and I can't do this. You know, so these are the trials that you go through, but

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after all, they would use like mockery, they would use guilt, they'd

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say you're not one of us if you don't drink, if you don't party, or if you don't

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go after women, you're not one of us. So I can honestly say that I've had

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guys who outranked me try to order me to break faith and partake in whatever

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they were doing. So let's look at the last temptation, our story. In verse 9,

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he says that, and he took him to Jerusalem and said him on the pinnacle

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of the temple and said to him, if you are the Son of God, throw yourself down from

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here, for it is written, he will command his angels concerning you to guard you,

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and on their hands they will bear you up lest you strike your foot

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against the stone. And Jesus answered him and said, it is said, you shall not put

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the Lord your God to the test, and when the devil had ended every temptation, he

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departed for him until an opportune time. The devil this time attempts to use

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scripture to get his way. No surprise here, right? The devil quotes Psalms 91,

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verses 11 through 12, for he will command his angels concerning you to

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guard you in all your ways, and on the other hand, they will bear you up lest

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you strike your foot against the stone. This is something that's important for

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all Christians to remember, both old and new, the Bible, or the devil knows the

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Bible better than you do. This is why we pray, read, and stay within the body of

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Christ. This is why we are careful at discerning what is right and wrong

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according to the Word of God. This is why we have brothers and sisters in the

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faith, and this is why we have leadership like a pastor and other leaders in our

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fellowship. The devil in the world will try to use snippets from the Bible to

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twist your understanding in order to get you to stumble and fall, to get you to

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question and challenge the Bible until you separate yourself entirely.

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Going back to my story about the military, is that you know that when

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they're telling you, hey you gotta you gotta do what we want in order to be

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part of the group, some of those people, oddly enough, would be people who were

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raised in a Christian home, and they would start using scripture like the

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common, oh Jesus turned water into wine, and all this kind of stuff. Or you know

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the funniest marijuana jokes or pot jokes is, you know, if God

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didn't want us to smoke, he wouldn't have made it, you know, wouldn't have let it

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grow, or all these kind of silly things they try to throw your way. But

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neglecting the other parts of scripture where it tells us to remain

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sober, especially as we're in the end times, we're called to be sober. But if

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you're a new convert, you don't know a lot of this stuff. So

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sometimes people get tripped up as a new convert because they'll come across

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someone who says, well I'm a Christian too. They never told you about Christ

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until after you converted, but now all of a sudden they're Christian and they

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know the Bible better than you do, so they'll use the Bible to confuse you

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into sinning. Now that's basically what the devil was doing. He's like, oh I

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know the Bible and I know you'll be perfectly fine doing this thing. So you

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have to have that personal relationship with Jesus Christ. You have to have that,

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you know, prayer time and that word time built into your life. Because how did

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Jesus deal with this temptation? Well we go back to Deuteronomy, you know, in

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chapter 6 verse 16, you shall not put the Lord your God to test as you

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he fled the scene. This is true also in our lives. When others try to use the

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Bible to get under our skin, it's important to know, you know, the Bible

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enough to shut it down. You have to be able to stand, well you know what, I get

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that this is working for you to try to say that that's okay, but the Bible I

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read tells me to be vigilant, to be sober-minded, to not get too much

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wine, to not give in to wine or to give in to beer. It talks about, you

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know, focusing like a watchman so that you can be there as a blessing to others.

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how is that blessing to me for you to try to tempt me? The word of God

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calls us to edify the brothers and sisters in Christ, not to try to bring

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them down to whatever level that somebody else is living at and not to

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test our God.

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So here's an example that I used to have to, you know, deal with all the time,

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right, and I've already said this, but it's about like the, you know, Jesus into

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wine and it's so funny when people use it because it's like a mic drop.

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They think, oh I've got you in a corner with this one, but they neglect to

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understand that in Galatians 5 19 through 21 the acts of the sinful nature

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obvious, drunkenness, orgies, and the like. I warn you as I did before that those who

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live like this will not inherit the kingdom of God. Ephesians, you know, 5 18

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says do not get drunk on wine which leads to debauchery. So the

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verse that's right before that section is saying don't get drunk because it

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leads to debauchery and that's exactly the example I had with my life.

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Well who here ever actually sees people who are drinking without getting

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intoxicated? Now there might be people who can control themselves and I'm not

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going to, you know, throw stones here, but for me I know that this is not, that

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we're called to be sober because these steps lead to drunkenness, orgies, and

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the like and that if you start living that way you're not going to inherit the

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kingdom of God. So why would I even start? So the issue that we come to is

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authority. Who are you going to give authority to in your life? Are we going

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to give authority to the people that are trying to get us to fall? We're called to

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give Jesus and through him God all the authority in our lives. That is what

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Jesus was saying, do not test the Lord. God has all authority and we are not

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meant to test his authority simply because someone other than God came by

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and challenged us to do it. So in closing, let's look at five takeaways or lessons

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for today. No one is exempt from temptation. God does not tempt us, but he

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will allow us to be tested. You know, I like to think of hiking. If you only train

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on the flattest easiest terrain you will never gain strength. Think of testing as

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strength training and temptation as the voice that tells you it is too hard and

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just to quit. This is a powerful statement when you think about it

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because I live in a pretty hilly area where I hike today. Salmon Arm has lots

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of available hills to climb and then when you go down and you're even in like

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a work event you're having to climb upstairs or something like that I find

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it like pretty amazing to be able to like just bounce up the stairs almost

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and see other people who are relatively in shape. You know, struggle they're like

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oh I hate stairs. I love stairs but it's because I live to go up and down

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the mountains. Another thing to take away is temptation is not the same as

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sin. We all face temptation but that is not the sin. Once you accept the

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temptation and hold it to your heart and act upon it then the action is that

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action is where the sin is committed. Now that can even be in your mind meaning

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if you're tempted and you start fixating on the temptation and you

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start reliving it in your head and not taking it into a not judging it and

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casting it out. We know that because you know Jesus tells us that if you

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even think of adultery with a woman or if think of you know committing

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adultery with a woman that is like the sin of adultery and the idea there is

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that you're not only thinking of it it's not a passing thought it's like a

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captive thought you've taken it you're holding on to it. So we have to be

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careful with that so that we're not making excuses for ourselves. I

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heard someone actually that politically is very very

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very smart and he comes from a Jewish background. He made the

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statement about certain things about pornography and it was

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like that's okay rather than living it out. But we know from

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Jesus that if you're living it out in your mind over and over again that's

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just as bad as the sin of doing for your soul. The next

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takeaway is respond to the temptation with God's Word. Use the Word to repel

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temptation but when that's not enough flee temptation like the story of Joseph

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the Potiphar's wife. So when Potiphar's wife was pulling on Joseph's cloak to

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get him to you know commit adultery he fled even though he ended up being

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punished by the earthly powers. He was able to maintain his

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cleanliness in the sight of God because he fled from that temptation. And resist

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the devil in the power of the Spirit. So this is where we go back into what I've

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been hitting on for the whole message for the most part is pray

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and read the Word and then remain in fellowship with your brothers and

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sisters in Christ. And this is also a lesson for us for those of us that are

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in ministry or those of us that are locked into a church. If you see one of

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your brothers and sisters in Christ who stops like they used to fellowship with

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you all the time but then they start like waning away reach out follow up

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see if there's something going on maybe they've you know maybe everything's okay

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but maybe not maybe they've fallen to some temptation and they're

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under condemnation in their minds and work with them to try to reclaim them

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back to the kingdom in the sense that don't let people just walk away

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from the Lord be there for them and remind them about redemption and

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restoration and grace. And then the last takeaway is pursue the will of God with

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all your heart mind and soul pursue God pursue them with your thoughts your

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words your actions. This is a good idea like you know with discipleship and it

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tags along with what I'm saying with fellowship with the point before if

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someone starts falling away from God work with them see if there's a way you

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can help them to grow in their faith take it you know take it upon yourself

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to work with new converts what are you going through man how's it going today

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how can you know how can I help maybe we should we go to coffee we'll just talk

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these are all things that we want to do as we grow in our own you know

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ministry because we're all called to be ministers of Christ we're all called to

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be priests of you know the you know of Jesus Christ's gospel message these are

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all you know very very easy things to understand but we have to remember that

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you we have to purpose it in our mind we have to purpose it in our life we have

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to put every all this stuff first and not allow temptations to derail us but

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when temptations do really derail us we have to remember that there's grace to

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cover that sin and with that if I could have every head bowed every eye closed

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obviously for driving keep your hands on the wheel I know it's it's a silly joke

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I say every every week but I want to give an invitation here we're all

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tempted we all fall we're all if Bible tells us that we all fall short of the

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glory of the Lord but it's never too late and if this message has impacted

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you in any way and you feel the conviction of the Holy Spirit dealing

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with your own sin and you know that you haven't given your life to Jesus Christ

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and but you want to you can do that you can signify that with an uplift hand

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wherever you are I can't see it but God sees it and if you mean it and he

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recognizes that and if you if you did raise your hand I just want to repeat

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after me dear Lord God I know that I'm a sinner but I know that you sent your son

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Jesus Christ and that he died for my sins I repent of my sins and I accept

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him as my Lord my Savior in Jesus name I pray amen that simple prayer is just the

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it's the you humbling yourself before the power of the Lord giving your life

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over to him accepting him as your Lord and Savior accepting him into your heart

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and now you are you are you by grace you saved you've received salvation by Jesus

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Christ through grace and so with that now you know next steps of course is

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start start reading the Word of God start in the New Testament where Jesus

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was here the words of Jesus read them for yourself you can download any app on

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your phone get a good Bible translation whether it's King James or NIV or ESV

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there's lots of good translations out there

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start reading it and washing yourself in the Word of God and then of course find

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a church to lock into find a Bible believing church and become a member of

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that church and you start building your life around this this this life-saving

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you know grace that you just received if you can't find a church if you don't you

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know you if you live in Samanar reach out we meet every Sunday at 1030 we have

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Bible studies on Wednesdays we have outreach and different things on the you

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know Saturdays and throughout the week but if you don't live you know nearby

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reach out to me anyway we got over 3,500 churches worldwide and I'd be happy to

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help you find a church and then at the end for everybody listening I just I

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just really thank you for you know taking the time out of your day to listen

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and I I really pray that you would you know subscribe to this podcast it really

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helps us I pray that you like it if if it touched you in any way that also helps

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you could leave a review and then ultimately I want you to share it you

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know the cry of my heart is for for the the gospel to get out to everybody

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everybody in salmon arm where I'm located at I pray that they actually hear

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you know the undiluted gospel of Jesus Christ but beyond salmon arm I have you

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know I pray for you know all of British Columbia all of Canada all of North

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America and the whole world to be touched by the gospel of Jesus Christ you

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know I have a vision of someday having this church be able to send missionaries

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out to other countries to other places in the world so that we can continue to

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have the gospel message being preached everywhere have other churches from this

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work to be sent out in other parts of Canada to have you know have them sent

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into even into the States you know where I come from originally we have lots of

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churches but I do know that there are lots of communities that need more

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churches you might not think that if you're you're new to Christ you might

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think there's churches everywhere but how many times have you actually heard

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the gospel message

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how many times has someone actually come to you on the street and actually told

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you about Jesus Christ because that's what we're trying to do is we want

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converts to Christ we want people to come into relationship with Jesus

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Christ so if you can you know subscribe like and share that really helps us get

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this message out and I want to thank you again for listening and I can't wait for

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you to come back next time God bless

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thank you for listening to the PHA Potter's house salmon arm podcast be

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sure to follow us on Instagram at Potter's house underscore salmon arm to

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Jesus Christ can revolutionize your life