Understanding Temptation Better Part 3: Popularity At Any Cost

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 Power

Matthew 4:5-7
5 Then the devil took Him up into the holy city, set Him on the pinnacle of the temple, 6 and said to Him, “If You are the Son of God, throw Yourself down. For it is written: ‘He shall give His angels charge over you,’ and,‘In their hands they shall bear you up,
Lest you dash your foot against a stone.’ ” 7 Jesus said to him, “It is written again, ‘You shall not tempt the Lord your God.’ ”

#1 Be Careful of Scripture Taken Out of Context

Titus 2:11-12
11 For the grace of God that brings salvation has appeared to all men, 12 teaching us that, denying ungodliness and worldly lusts, we should live soberly, righteously, and godly in the present age,

Psalm 91:11-12
11 For He shall give His angels charge over you,
To keep you in all your ways. 12 In their hands they shall bear you up,
Lest you dash your foot against a stone.

Psalm 91:1-2
“He who dwells in the secret place of the Most High Shall abide under the shadow of the Almighty. I will say of the Lord, “He is my refuge and my fortress; My God, in Him I will trust.””

Psalm 91:13
You shall tread upon the lion and the cobra,
The young lion and the serpent you shall trample underfoot.

#2 You Don’t Have to be Popular in People’s Eyes, Because You Are the Apple of His Eye

Psalm 17:8
8 Keep me as the apple of Your eye; 
Hide me under the shadow of Your wings,