Understanding Temptation Better (Pleasure)
1 Corinthians 10:13
13 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.
The 3 P’s of Temptation
#1 Pleasure
#2 Popularity
#3 Pride
Matthew 4:1-4
Then Jesus was led up by the Spirit into the wilderness to be tempted by the devil. 2 And when He had fasted forty days and forty nights, afterward He was hungry. 3 Now when the tempter came to Him, he said, “If You are the Son of God, command that these stones become bread.” 4 But He answered and said, “It is written, ‘Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceeds from the mouth of God.’ ”
#1 Be Spirit Led
Tempt: to entice or attempt to entice (someone) to do or acquire something that they find attractive but know to be wrong or not beneficial.
A synonym of the word Tempt is to Test
James 1:12-15
12 Blessed is the man who endures temptation; for when he has been approved, he will receive the crown of life which the Lord has promised to those who love Him. 13 Let no one say when he is tempted, “I am tempted by God”; for God cannot be tempted by evil, nor does He Himself tempt anyone. 14 But each one is tempted when he is drawn away by his own desires and enticed. 15 Then, when desire has conceived, it gives birth to sin; and sin, when it is full-grown, brings forth death.
#2 Trust The Father’s Provision
Genesis 3:6
6 So when the woman saw that the tree was good for food (Pleasure), that it was pleasant to the eyes, and a tree desirable to make one wise, she took of its fruit and ate. She also gave to her husband with her, and he ate.
Matthew 16:24-26
24 Then Jesus said to His disciples, “If anyone desires to come after Me, let him DENY himself, and take up his cross, and follow Me. 25 For whoever desires to save his life will lose it (give it up), but whoever loses his life for My sake will find it. (You always gain more than you Give)26 For what profit is it to a man if he gains the whole world, and loses his own soul? Or what will a man give in exchange for his soul?
#3 Know Who You Are
Matthew 3:16-17
16 When He had been baptized, Jesus came up immediately from the water; and behold, the heavens were opened to Him, and He saw the Spirit of God descending like a dove and alighting upon Him. 17 And suddenly a voice came from heaven, saying, “This is My beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased.”
Romans 6:1-2
1 What shall we say then? Shall we continue in sin that grace may abound? 2 Certainly not! How shall we who died to sin live any longer in it
John 1:1-2
In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. He was in the beginning with God…
John 1:14
14 And the Word became flesh and dwelt among us, and we beheld His glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father, full of grace and truth.
Matthew 24:35
35 Heaven and earth will pass away, but My words will by no means pass away.
John 1:12
12 But as many as received Him, to them He gave the right to become children of God, to those who believe in His name
John 15:5
5 “I am the vine, you are the branches. He who abides in Me, and I in him, bears much fruit; for without Me you can do nothing.
John 15:15
…but I have called you friends, for all things that I heard from My Father I have made known to you.
Romans 3:24
24 being Justified freely by His grace through the Redemption that is in Christ Jesus
Romans 8:16-17
16 The Spirit Himself bears witness with our spirit that we are children of God, 17 and if children, then heirs—heirs of God and joint heirs with Christ, if indeed we suffer with Him, that we may also be glorified together.
Romans 15:7
7 Therefore receive (or Accept) one another, just as Christ also received (Accepted) us, to the glory of God.
1 Corinthians 3:16
16 Do you not know that you are the temple of God and that the Spirit of God dwells in you?
2 Corinthians 5:21
21 For He made Him who knew no sin to be sin for us, that we might become the righteousness of God in Him.
Philippians 3:20
20 For our citizenship is in heaven, from which we also eagerly wait for the Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ
Colossians 3:12
12 Therefore, as the elect of God (or the Chosen of God), holy and beloved, put on tender mercies, kindness, humility, meekness, longsuffering;
Psalm 119:11
11 “Your words have I hid in my heart, some translations even say treasured in my heart, that I might not sin against God.”