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Relying (Trusting)
is all about trusting then Lord in the greatest battle we will face in life.
This is not the battle to put food on our tables or clothes on our backs.
This is not the battle to approach God for forgiveness or even the battle to forgive those who have treated us wrongly.
Rather, it is the battle we face every day as we fight the temptations of the flesh and the attacks of the devil.
Prayer is about relying.
In the greatest battle of life, we need to learn to rely on God, for therein lies the secret of our victory!
I.
The Problem of Temptation
Lord in the greatest battle we will face in life.
The Lord Jesus tells us to pray, “Lead us not into temptation.”
This simple request literally brims over with meaning.
literally brims over with meaning.
A. This Statement presupposes the leadership of the Lord in our lives.
I think we would all agree that our heavenly Father is a sovereign God.
Since this is true, does this also mean that God leads us into places where we are tempted to sin?
The answer to that question is an obvious “No!”
This problem is addressed in
this also mean that God leads us into places
in
When Adam was tempted and fell into sin in the Garden of Eden, he tried to lay the blame at the feet of the Lord ().
But, the fault did not lie with the Lord.
The fault was with Adam and Adam alone!
fell into sin in the Garden of Eden, he tried
where we are tempted to sin?
to lay the blame at the feet of the Lord (Gen.
3:12).
But, the fault did not lie with the Lord.
The fault was with Adam and Adam alone!
This is not the battle to put food on our tables
God never leads us into direct contact with sin, but as we travel the path of life, every crossroad brings with it the option to take a path which leads us away from the Lord’s will for our lives.
Every trial we face comes with the potential to fail.
We may sin, but when we do, the fault lies with us and not with God.
or clothes on our backs.
This is not the battle
So, what is the Lord telling us to pray?
The meaning is more like “Allow us to be spared from difficult circumstances that would tempt us to sin”
with sin, but as we travel the path of life, every
So, what is the Lord telling us to pray?
The meaning is more like “Allow us to be spared from difficult circumstances that would tempt us to sin”
B. Temptation arises from within the human heart
B. Temptation arises from within the human heart
Crossway Bibles, The ESV Study Bible (Wheaton, IL: Crossway Bibles, 2008), 1832.
to approach God for forgiveness or even the
with sin, but as we travel the path of life, every
crossroad brings with it the option to take a
B. Temptation arises from within the human heart
crossroad brings with it the option to take a
path which leads us away from the Lord’s will
battle to forgive those who have treated us
wrongly.
Rather, it is the battle we face every
path which leads us away from the Lord’s will
for our lives.
Every trial we face comes with
You see, our human flesh is hopelessly flawed and given over to sin
the potential to fail.
We may sin, but when we
for our lives.
Every trial we face comes with
given over to sin
day as we fight the temptations of the flesh
Mark
and the attacks of the devil.
Temptation in and of itself is not a sin.
But, when the instant temptation is embraced and pursued, sin is the result ().
Just seeing Bathsheba on the rooftop bathing in the nude was not a sin.
But, when David desired and pursued her, sin had been born, and the end of that sin was death and destruction!
the potential to fail.
We may sin, but when we
do, the fault lies with us and not with God.
when the instant temptation is embraced and
Prayer is about relying.
In the greatest
The essence of temptation is a problem within man.
You see, the heart of the problem is a problem in the heart.
The Pharisees and the Sadducees never did understand this.
In the next verses we see that disciples had trouble understanding it as well.
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do, the fault lies with us and not with God.
Prayer is about
battle of life, we need to learn to rely on God,
relying
pursued, sin is the result ().
within man.
You see, the heart of the problem
for therein lies the secret of our victory!
We need help!
We need a Helper who is greater than we are.
We need Someone who can strengthen us in times of temptation ().
and pursued her, sin had been born, and the
is a problem in the heart ().
end of that sin was death and destruction!
We need help!
We need a Helper who is
greater than we are.
We need Someone who
II.
The Power of Temptation
Our need to pray for the Lord’s protection from temptation is so great because we are so prone to failure.
We have already discovered that our drive for sin, our hunger for sin, and our capacity for sin dwells within our own hearts.
Temptation is merely an outgrowth of who we are by nature, and that is why it is so often so hard for us to resist.
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