Stage to temptation: Reassurance that there will be no real consequences.
(NKJV)
Proverbs 7:19–20 NKJV
For my husband is not at home;He has gone on a long journey;He has taken a bag of money with him,And will come home on the appointed day.”
19 For my husband is not at home; He has gone on a long journey; 20 He has taken a bag of money with him, And will come home on the appointed day.”
"Temptation is extremely powerful if you believe "no one will ever know!""
Reality? There is a always a heavy cost.
Satan tempts you to by assuring you that you can always repent later.
"But he who now tempts you to sin upon the account that repentance is easy, will ere ong, bring you to despair, and forever destroy your soul, and represent repentance as the most difficult and hardest work in the world." Thomas Brooks
Demonic lie: That I can sin now and later ask forgiveness.
