What is the "besetting sin" in your life? Identify the underlying emotional need or "desire" this sin is attempting to fulfill. What steps are you taking to resist temptation and overcome this sin?

2. 12 Blessed is the man who endures temptation;
for when he has been approved, he will receive
the crown of life which the Lord has promised
to those who love Him.

3. 13 Let no one say when he is tempted, “I
am tempted by God”; for God cannot be
tempted by evil, nor does He Himself
tempt anyone. 14 But each one is
tempted when he is drawn away by his
own desires and enticed. 15 Then, when
desire has conceived, it gives birth to
sin; and sin, when it is full-grown, brings
forth death.

4. Temptations & Trials are Different
12 Blessed is the man who
endures temptation (πειρασμός
– peirasmos); for when he has
been approved, he will receive
the crown of life which the Lord
has promised to those who love
Him.
James 1:2–3 My brethren, count it all joy when
you fall into various trials (πειρασμός – peirasmos),
3 knowing that the testing (δοκίμιον - dokimion) of
your faith produces patience.

5. Temptations & Trials are Different

6. Temptations are Ubiquitous
James 1:2 My brethren, count it all joy when you
fall into various trials,
James 1:13 Let no one say when he is tempted,

7. Temptations are Never from God
James 1:13 Let no one say when he is tempted,
“I am tempted by God”; for God cannot be
tempted by evil, nor does He Himself tempt
anyone.
Matthew 6:13 “And lead us not
into temptation, but deliver us
from the evil one

8. Temptations are Never from God
James 1:13 Let no one say when he is tempted,
“I am tempted by God”; for God cannot be
tempted by evil, nor does He Himself tempt
anyone.
Habakkuk 1:13
You are of purer eyes
than to behold evil,
and cannot look on
wickedness.

9. “After Annie’s death, Charles set the Christian faith
firmly behind him.”
Annie’s Box, Randall Keynes
(descendent of Darwin)
On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection,
or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life

10. “Freed from the last vestige of belief that the
world was perfect because God created it that
way, Darwin continued without spiritual restraint
to work out his theory on the origin of species.”
A review of Annie’s Box in Science,
vol. 296, p. 1974, 14 Jun. 2002

11. Temptations are Never from God
1 Corinthians 10:13 No temptation has
overtaken you except such as is common to
man; but God is faithful, who will not allow
you to be tempted beyond what you are able,
but with the temptation will also make the
way of escape, that you may be able to bear
it.

13. Temptations follow a Consistent Pattern
James 1:14 But each one is tempted when he
is drawn away by his own desires and enticed.
Romans 7:18–25
“desires” (ἐπιθυμία – epithymia) deep desire,
longing, craving (Lk. 22:15; Phil. 1:23)

19. Human hair does not
normally deteriorate
with age. Auschwitz
survivors say that the
hair in the large glass
display case was cut
from the heads of the
victims after they were
killed with Zyklon-B in
the gas chambers.
According to Holocaust
historians, this display
is evidence that Jews
were gassed at
Auschwitz.
>15,000 lbs. of human hair
cut from the heads of the Jews at Auschwitz

20. At Auschwitz children were often killed upon arrival.
Children born in the camp were generally killed on the
spot. Near the end of the war, in order to cut expenses
and save gas, cost-accountant considerations led to an
order to place living children directly into the ovens or
throw them into open burning pits.

22. Temptations follow a Consistent Pattern
1) Desire
2) Deception
3) Design
4) Disobedience
5) Death
James 1:14 But each one is tempted when he
is drawn away by his own desires and enticed.
15 Then, when desire has conceived, it gives
birth to sin; and sin, when it is full-grown,
brings forth death.

23. "In our members there is a slumbering inclination
towards desire which is both sudden and fierce.
With irresistible power desire seizes mastery over
the flesh. All at once a secret, smoldering fire is
kindled. The flesh burns and is in flames. It makes
no difference whether it is sexual desire or
ambition or vanity or desire for revenge or love of
fame and power or greed for money… At this
moment God is quite unreal to us. He loses all
reality, and only desire for the creature is real....
The powers of clear discrimination and of
decision are taken from us."
Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Temptation

24. Temptations increase with Deceptions
James 1:14 But each one is tempted when he
is drawn away by his own desires and enticed.
Hebrews 12:1-2 …let us lay aside every weight,
and the sin which so easily ensnares us, and let
us run with endurance the race that is set before
us, 2 looking unto Jesus, the author and finisher
of our faith…

25. Two Trajectories of
Temptations & Trials
TEMPTATIONS
TRIALS
Desire
Deception
Design
Patience
Perfection
Purpose
Plenty
Disobedience

26. CHRIST KNOWS WHAT TEMPTATION IS
“No man knows how bad he is until he has tried
very hard to be good. A silly idea is current that
good people do not know what temptation
means. That is an obvious lie. Only those who
try to resist temptation know how strong it is....
Christ, because He was the only Man who never
yielded to temptation, is also the only Man who
knows to the full what temptation means.”
C. S. Lewis

27. James 1:16-18

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