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Be Mature By Warren Wiersbe How to Handle Temptations Chapter 3

Be Mature By Warren Wiersbe How to Handle Temptations Chapter 3. James 1: 13 - 18. Trials & Temptations Trials sent by God or Temptations sent by Satan Trials on the outside and Temptations on the inside Trials can become temptations like Israel Overcoming Temptations

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Be Mature By Warren Wiersbe How to Handle Temptations Chapter 3

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  1. Be MatureBy Warren WiersbeHow to Handle TemptationsChapter 3 James 1: 13 - 18

  2. Trials & Temptations • Trials sent by God or Temptations sent by Satan • Trials on the outside and Temptations on the inside • Trials can become temptations like Israel • Overcoming Temptations • Consider God’s judgment (1:13–16) • Negative approach • Look Ahead • Temptations is an opportunity to accomplish a good thing in a bad way • Sin as a process, not a single act • Stages: • Desire(1: 14) • Lust means any kind of desire, not just sexual passions

  3. Examples: Eating is normal; gluttony is sin • Sleep is normal: laziness is sin • Marriage is honorable: God will judge whoremongers & adulterers • Denial and suppression of normal desires are not normal • Constant control through Spirit (Gal 5: 23) • Deception (1:14) • Drawn away as baiting • Enticed mean to bait on hook • Temptation always carries with it some bait that appeals to natural desires. • It hides the fact that yielding will bring sorrow and punishment • Examples: Lot and David • The bait keeps us from seeing the consequences of sin

  4. Disobedience ( 1:15) • Emotions (desires), intellect ( deception), will (disobedience) • The will approves and acts; the result is sin • The Christian living is the matter of will, not the feelings as Christians intend to do based on feelings • Phil. 2: 13 • Death (1:15) • Disobedience leads to death, not life • Stages: (Gen 3) • The serpent used desires to entice Eve • The serpent deceived using the bait that the forbidden tree was good and pleasant & eating will make her wise • Eve disobeyed by taking the fruit and eating it

  5. Adam & Eve experienced immediate spiritual death (spiritual separation from God) • Consider God’s Goodness (1:17) • Look around • Positive approach • God gives only good gifts • The way God gives is good • What He gives and how He gives are good • Value of giving • He gives constantly • “cometh down” means “to keep on coming down” • He doesn’t change • His holiness and perfectness • We should never question His love or doubt His goodness when in difficulties or temptations

  6. Examples: David (II Samuel 12: 7-8) and Joseph (Gen 39:7ff) • Purpose for temptation is to teach us patience, i.e, David was tempted to kill Saul twice, but he refused and waited for God’s time • Consider God’s Divine Nature (1:18) • Look within • Spiritual Birth • Divine (John 3:1-7) • Gracious (John 1:13) • New birth is the work of God • Through God’s Word • John 3:36 • 1 Peter 1:23 • Finest birth possible • “a kind of firstfruits of His creatures”

  7. God rejects the first birth & accepts the second birth • Old nature vs new nature • New nature required to be fed the Word of God daily (Matt 4:4)

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