1. Time to Grow Up – Part 3 October 8, 2008
Handling Temptation
Time to Grow Up – Part 3
October 8, 2008

2. Handling Temptation
See James 1:13-18

3. Trials and Temptations

4. Trials and Temptations
Trials can lead to temptations

5. Trials and Temptations
Trials can lead to temptations
Every temptation is a chance to grow in love for God
“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.” 1 Corinthians 10:13

7. A) Remember God’s Judgment
See James 1:14-16

8. A) Remember God’s Judgment
DESIRE
“But each one is tempted when he is drawn away by his own desires and enticed.”

9. A) Remember God’s Judgment
DESIRE
Sin is when we try to satisfy our God given desires outside of God’s plan
“Marriage is honorable among all, and the bed undefiled; but fornicators and adulterers God will judge.” Hebrews 13:4

10. A) Remember God’s Judgment
DESIRE
DECEPTION

11. A) Remember God’s Judgment
DESIRE
DECEPTION

12. A) Remember God’s Judgment
DESIRE
DECEPTION

13. A) Remember God’s Judgment
DESIRE
DECEPTION
DISOBEDIENCE
“Then, when desire has conceived, it gives birth to sin; and sin, when it is full-grown, brings forth death.”

14. A) Remember God’s Judgment
DESIRE
DECEPTION
DISOBEDIENCE
Progression of Sin
Temptation = desire + opportunity
Sin = temptation + action
Sin leads to…

15. A) Remember God’s Judgment
DESIRE
DECEPTION
DISOBEDIENCE
DEATH
“For the wages of sin is death” Romans 6:23

16. A) Remember God’s Judgment
DESIRE
DECEPTION
DISOBEDIENCE
DEATH
Progression of Sin
Temptation = desire + opportunity
Sin = temptation + action
Death = sin – repentance

17. A) Remember God’s Judgment
DESIRE
DECEPTION
DISOBEDIENCE
DEATH
See Genesis 3

18. A) Remember God’s Judgment
DESIRE
DECEPTION
DISOBEDIENCE
DEATH
“But I fear, lest somehow, as the serpent deceived Eve by his craftiness, so your minds may be corrupted from the simplicity that is in Christ.” 2 Corinthians 11:3

19. B) Remember God’s Goodness
See James 1:17

20. B) Remember God’s Goodness
God never gives bad gifts

21. B) Remember God’s Goodness
God never gives bad gifts
God never stops giving

22. B) Remember God’s Goodness
God never gives bad gifts
God never stops giving
God never changes

23. B) Remember God’s Goodness
God never gives bad gifts
God never stops giving
God never changes
“Thus says the LORD God of Israel: ‘I anointed you king over Israel, and I delivered you from the hand of Saul. I gave you your master’s house and your master’s wives into your keeping, and gave you the house of Israel and Judah. And if that had been too little, I also would have given you much more!” 2 Samuel 12:7-8

24. C) Remember you are child of God
See James 1:18
“How then can I do this great wickedness, and sin against God?” Genesis 39:9

25. C) Remember you are child of God
“How shall we who died to sin live any longer in it? Or do you not know that as many of us as were baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into His death? Therefore we were buried with Him through baptism into death, that just as Christ was raised from the dead by the glory of the Father, even so we also should walk in newness of life.” Romans 6:2-4

26. C) Remember you are child of God
“Therefore do not let sin reign in your mortal body, that you should obey it in its lusts. And do not present your members as instruments of unrighteousness to sin, but present yourselves to God as being alive from the dead, and your members as instruments of righteousness to God. For sin shall not have dominion over you, for you are not under law but under grace.” Romans 6:12-14

27. Handling Temptation Remember God’s Judgment Remember God’s Goodness
Remember you are a child of God
“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” 1 Corinthians 10:13