What is temptation? How have temptations in your life helped you in your spiritual walk with Christ? What "triggers" are most commonly the cause of temptation for you? Where are you most vulnerable to Satan’s attacks? What is your “besetting sin”? (Heb. 12:2) How do you resist temptation? What do you tell yourself when tempted? How do you use the “shield of faith”? (Eph. 6:16) How are temptations similar and different for every Christian? How can we help each other resist temptation?

3. “Give us”
BODY
Provision for the
Present
Admit our Dependency
“Forgive us”
SOUL
Pardon for the
Past
Surrender our Rights
“Lead us not”
“Deliver us”
SPIRIT
Protection for the
Future
Surrender our Desire
Surrender our Self-
sufficiency

4. "Forgiveness does not break the bonds
of the enemy's hold. But forgiveness
increases our consciousness of
weakness, and in the new desire which
comes from it to walk in holiness."
Alexander Maclaren

6. A. To Test, Try or Prove Good
Ø peirasmos = neutral word, neither
good nor bad; it simply means
"trial". Its primary meaning is
usually that of "proving by testing",
or "testing under trial".
Ø Jas. 1:2-12 outward trials, troubles,
tribulation, affliction

7. A. To Test, Try or Prove Good
If the prayer is literally saying, "Lead us not
into trials," wouldn't we be contradicting
James 1:2 which tells us to "count it all joy"
when we fall into trials?

8. Ø The Encyclopedic Dictionary
definition: "to attempt to persuade a
person to do something evil or unwise,
as by promising pleasure or gain."
Ø Jas. 1:13ff inward enticements to do
evil ~ Don't blame God for your dirty
ol' sins!
B. To Entice, Allure or Provoke to Evil

9. If this petition means that we have to ask
God not to lead us into temptation, does He
if we don't ask Him? Can a holy, righteous,
pure, undefiled, blameless, unblemished,
virtuous God possibly lead anyone into
temptation?
B. To Entice, Allure or Provoke to Evil

10. "No man knows how bad he is till he has tried
very hard to be good. A silly idea is current that
good people do not know what temptation
means. This is an obvious lie. Only those who try
to resist temptation know how strong it is. After
all, you find out the strength of the German army
by fighting against it, not by giving in. You find out
the strength of a wind by trying to walk against it,
not by lying down. A man who gives in to
temptation after five minutes simply does not
know what it would have been like an hour later.

11. "That is why bad people, in one sense, know very
little about badness. They have lived a sheltered
life by always giving in. We never find out the
strength of the evil impulse inside us until we try
to fight it: and 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 -- the only complete realist."
~ C.S. Lewis

12. "Let no man think himself to be holy because he
is not tempted, for the holiest and highest in life
have the most temptations. How much higher the
hill is, so much is the wind there greater; so, how
much higher the life is, so much the stronger is
the temptation of the enemy."
~ John Wycliffe

13. Ø Temptation is no respecter of age,
sex, education, sophistication or
spirituality
Ø There is no level in the Christian life
where you will be free from
temptation!

14. 1) Youth battle Wolf of LUST
2) Mid-life fight Tiger of PRIDE, PRESTIGE,
POSITION
3) Senior years
struggle
Lion of (financial) SECURITY

15. If a Brother Sins…
"When we see a brother or sister in sin,
there are two things we do not know: First,
we do not know how hard he or she tried not
to sin. And second, we do not know the power
of the forces that assailed him or her. We also
do not know what we would have done in the
same circumstances."
~ F. B. Meyer

16. “Let no man say when he
is tempted...”
James 1:13

17. A. THE ENEMIES OF THE SOUL (Eph. 2:2,3)
1. The World
2. The Flesh
3. The Devil

18. A. THE ENEMIES OF THE SOUL
1. The World
Isaac Watts: "Is this vile world a friend
to grace, to help me on to God?"
Rom. 12:1,2
Col. 2:4-8

19. “Let no man say when he
is tempted...”
James 1:13
“Every man is tempted...”
James 1:14

20. A. THE ENEMIES OF THE SOUL
2. The Flesh
Ø Jas. 4:1-4 (the problem with a double-
minded heart)
Ø Jer. 17:9 "The heart is deceitful above
all things, and desperately wicked..."
Ø Mt. 15:19 " ... Out of the heart proceed
evil thoughts, murders, adulteries,
fornications, thefts, false witness,
blasphemies."

21. A. THE ENEMIES OF THE SOUL
2. The Flesh
Ø Rom. 7:17,18 11 “... sin dwelleth in
me. For I know that in me (that is, in
my flesh) dwelleth no good thing; for
to will is present with me, but how to
perform that which is good I find not.”

22. B. THE ENTICEMENTS OF OUR SOUL
(Jas. 1:13-15; I Jn. 2:16)
Ø The Lust of the Eyes
Ø The Lust of the Flesh
Ø The Pride of Life

23. Genesis 3
Eve
v. 1 Listened
v. 3 was Lured
v. 3 Lied
v. 6 Looked
v. 6 Lusted
v. 8 Lost

24. 1. Identify Besetting Sins
2. Identify “Triggers”
Ø Hungry
Ø Angry
Ø Lonely
Ø Tired

25. 3. Pray:
“Lead Us NOT into Temptation”
“Lead us to
AVOID
temptation”

26. 3. Pray:
“Lead us to AVOID temptation”
As WAZE warns motorists of hazards on the highway
and reroutes them to avoid the hazards, so our
omniscient God redirects those who pray to Him for
wisdom while traveling life’s highway.

27. 3. Pray:
“Lead Us NOT into Temptation”
“Deliver Us FROM Evil”

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