Safe From Sin

In the last blog we talked about triumphing through temptation. Every single one of us WILL be tempted. God said through the mouth of James When were tempted(Jms 1:13) Notice he did'nt say IF! Its an absolute certainty! The purpose of temptation is to lead us toward sin. If it were not it would cease to be temptation. Jesus was tempted in ALL points, YET without SIN(Heb 4:15) Proving that its possible for us not to yield to temptation. Someone might be like "Yeah but thats JESUS" We must understand Jesus did not do one thing during his earthly ministry in his powers as God. The bible says that he stripped himnself and took upon himself the LIKENESS OF A MAN(Phil 2:6-8) Its amazing and astounding the amount of believers preachers and pastors that dont get that!! Its realizing this that empowers us not to yield, BUT RESIST! We also discussed the penalty and price of sin. King David a man after Gods own heart used mightily and majestically, yet yielded to temptation that brought forth sin which lead to death. God said through James Lust is conceived, it bringith forth sin and sin WHEN IT IS FINISHED BRINGETH FORTH DEATH(Jms 1:15) Notice the enemy wants death to work in us! The bible talks about the LAW of SIN & DEATH(Rom 8:2) In other words this is a law that once set into motion will bring death. We see the effects of seath all over David. It impacted & influenced the death of his baby, the drama b/w Amnon and Tamar, and the rebellion of Absoloam. When it was all said and done four lives were ruined all as a result of this yielding. Now do we think for one second if David would've known all this was going to go down, you think he would've yielded for a nanosecond? A million times NO! So lets take preventive maintence! The Lord birthed and breeded an acronym in and through Bro Moore called FAR. Each of these letters represent a word. This is exactly what we want to be concerning & pertaining to sin FAR!!!!!!!!!! The first letter is FOLLOW. We must follow the leading of the HolySpirit. Jesus said LEAD US NOT INTO TEMPTATION(Matt 6:13) the Lord is the good SHEPHERED, NOT the GOOD COWBOY and we are his SHEEP, NOT CATTLE! God leads, not drives! We must respond to his leadings. This is the reason that we must remain sensitive and soft. The bible says when the HolySpirit SPEAKS, HARDEN NOT YOUR HEART(Heb 3:7, 15) God is always sending, but are we recieving? Havent you like been going down the road in your car listening to the radio and you hit a certain bump and all the sudden it becomes STATIC CITY? There was nothing wrong with the station sending the signal it was all about the reciving on our end. There are some things that we would've been better off never seeing or hearing. Lets make it easier on ourselves! Jesus said that his yoke is easy, and buden light(Matt 11:30) However its contigent upon us staying YOKED to HIM! The second letter A, AVOID. In the book of Proverbs God speaks through the mouth of Soloman warning us of going near the door and house of temptation. The Lord said through the mouth of Paul AVOID the very APPEARENCE of evil(1 Thess 5:22) The worst thing that anyone can say is "Oh I can handle it, I wont succomb" Oh my friend thats a lie from the Father of lies(John 8:44) Everything that we entertain is something that he can use. especially the areas where we know were tempted. we must not play games and pretend were not tempted when we are! The third letter, Resist! Once we have done the first two than we have to resist resist resist! Jesus resisted the enemy in the wilderness, because of all the preperation in times past. The bible said that at age twelve he was in the synogogue teaching. Following this we dont find mention of Jesus until hes baptised in the Jordan river. What was happening during this span and season? He GREW in WISDOM & STATURE(Luke 2:52) When we LIVE PREPARED, We'll BE PREPARED! When Jesus answered the first temptation with IT IS WRITTEN, MEN SHALL NOT LIVE BY BREAD ALONE BUT BY EVERY WORD THAT PROCEEDTHETH FROM THE MOUTH OF GOD(Matt 4:4) He did'nt get that out of nowhere it was in Deut 8:3!!!! God put this in him during that period of time and training and HE WAS READY!!!!!!!!! He'll cause us to be ready. Search & study to show yourself approved untp God!(2 Tim 2:15) in Jesus name!