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6 *HOW TO TAME TEMPTATION*
1 Cor.
10:12-14
Intro: Ill.
How an Eskimo kills a wolf.
(He will repeatedly coat the blade in blood,
allowing it to freeze, until the blade is covered.
Then, he will placethe knife in the
snow and as the wolf licks the blood, his tongue is numbed, and his hunger is fueled.
The wolf will lick the knife, cut his own tongue and eventaully bleed himself to death out
of his own lusts.)
Satan uses the same tactic to defeat God’s children.
He knows that he can
never have your soul, but he also knows if he can cause us to succumb to temptation, then we
will become powerless and useless as Christians.
Salvation is not a barrier to temptation! On the contrary, Satan is more
likely to attack the Christian that the unbeliever.
After all, he already has the lost
person!
He loves nothing better than causing one of God’s children to fall into sin.
However, temptation, while it cannot be avoided, can be overcome!
While it is
hard to endure temptation can be used to help us grow in Jesus.
I believer every
believer needs and wants to know how to turn temptation into triumph.
When temptation arises, men usually respond in one of three ways.
The
primary method for dealing with temptation in to simply give in to it.
Many
people live by an “If it feels good, do it,” mentality.
They live like animals, doing
everything they can to gratify the flesh.
Nearly all lost people live like this, but
sadly, so do many Christians!
Others struggle against temptation daily.
They spend all their time fighting
temptation in their own strength.
They fight and fail over and over, because no one
can overcome his evil nature alone.
If we could defeat the power of sin on our
own strength, then it would have been pointless for Jesus to die for us.
This type
of person hates what he does, but he goes on doing it because they do not have the
power to stop.
Finally, there are those who overcome temptation through the power of
Jesus Christ.
They turn their temptations into triumphs.
That may sound like
wishful thinking to many of you, but I want you to know that you can win over
temptation.
It is possible to live in victory.
There are a few things that you need to
know to be able to do this.
Let’s think together this morning on this thought,
“How To Tame Temptation.”
I.
*THE SUBJECT OF TEMPTATION (*Who is affected?)
A.
All humans are subject to temptation.
(Ill.
Best to the least) (Ill.
Jesus,
Peter, David, etc!)
B.
We are daily assaulted with a wide range of temptations.
(List some!) (Ill.
We all have one area where we are particularly susceptible.
C.
It is not a sin to be tempted.
(Ill.
Jesus - Heb. 4:15) Sin enters the picture
when temptation is surrendered to.
D.
Our greatest danger is to think we have arrived at a place where we are
above sinning, v. 12; Pro.
16:18.
When our pride tells us that us that we
cannot fall, then we are headed for a huge one!
Pride in this area just tempts
the devil!
E.
Why doesn’t God just kill the devil and remove the attraction for sin?
If that
were to happen, then you and I would lose the ability to be overcomers in
Jesus.
Without opposition, there is no victory!
God has not called us to a
life of ease, but to one of victory.
A victory that we cannot enjoy until we
have faced evil and overcome it.
II.
*THE SOURCE OF TEMPTATION* (Where)
A.
Ill.
V. 13 - “Common” - Do not think your temptations are so great, they are
just like the ones we all face.
They are just common, run of the mill, garden-
variety temptations.
We all get the same ones from the same sources.
(Ill.
1
John 2:16; Ill.
Eve - Gen. 3) There are three primary sources of temptation:
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