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Real Life presents the Jack Kibb's podcast with intention and boldness to proclaim truth,

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equip the saints and impact our culture.

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Well listen, temptation is a part of your life.

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It's a part of our life's battle and in a moment we're going to be opening of our

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Bibles and finding out how do we deal with temptation and what does God's words say about it?

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You can get the outlines of this podcast by going to Jack Kibb's dot com slash podcast.

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Today if this podcast lifts you up and encourages you to live a more fulfilled life in Christ,

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then make sure you leave us one of those five star ratings.

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To us, that's like saying amen or yes, then that rating will encourage others to listen.

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Now open your hearts to what God's word has to say to you.

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Here is Jack Kibb's.

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Well church, the fact of the matter is regarding temptation that you and I can be rest assured

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of this very fact that if you are breathing, you are subject to temptation.

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In fact, the truth is being alive in this world is something that the enemy will not

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let go unchecked.

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That's right.

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You and I have an enemy.

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The Bible teaches and not only does the Bible teach, but from the very words of Jesus

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himself that he had come to show us how to deal with the wicked one, how to deal with

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the temptations that Satan launches at our lives.

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So a lot of people misunderstand temptation.

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What is it?

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Temptation, remember this, please, now is not sin.

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Temptation would be the package that the sin is wrapped in.

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Temptation is delivered, you know, every day we seem to be getting a package at our front

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door from Amazon, right?

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Well, what's going on?

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I didn't order the package.

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I ordered what's inside.

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And so what Satan does is that he orders up a temptation that is tailor made for you,

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tailor made for me.

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Now I believe Satan does not know our thoughts.

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I don't believe that Satan can read our minds.

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I just think that he's very, very smart.

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He's been around a long time.

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And I think that humans are pretty predictable.

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So what happens is he delivers to us sin wrapped in temptation.

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For you and I to experience the temptation is not to sin, to give into the temptation

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is the sin.

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So what do we do about that?

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When it happens and it's going to happen today in your life, my life, we take our thoughts

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captive.

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We arrest our thoughts and we get them under control by the very word of God.

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That's why here on real life, we constantly give you the word of God.

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This is how we fight the spiritual life of spiritual warfare.

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For example, listen to this, brilliant, can I put it this way?

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Brilliant, military, tactic given by Commander Paul the Apostle, if you don't mind me saying

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so.

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He said that for the weapons of our warfare are not carnal but mighty in God for the pulling

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down of strongholds, casting down arguments in every high thing.

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Imagine that, that it sculpts itself against the knowledge of God.

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Here it comes, bringing every thought into captivity to the obedience of Christ.

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That's 2 Corinthians chapter 10 verses 4 through 5, epic, epic, passage of Scripture

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for our warfare.

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So we need to remember this.

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You are not some sort of subterranean Christian because you're being tempted.

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In fact, I would like to believe that the temptations that come against you and me have

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come at great skill and great plan by the wicked one.

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Why?

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Because I want to believe that if Satan is seeking to tempt me, he's trying to destroy me.

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Why would he want to destroy me?

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I want to believe because my walk with Jesus in this world is a threat to him.

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He doesn't want me to succeed.

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He doesn't want me to draw closer to Jesus.

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And so, he ships that package, delivers it into my eyes or my ears or my thoughts by

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temptation, wrapping it up.

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The sin is wrapped up.

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It's in that temptation package and it shouldn't surprise us because guess what?

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The first temptation that ever happened, the first launch as a war of one of his arrows

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to deliver that package to a place in the Garden of Eden, Adam and Eve.

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He came and he saw that God loved Adam and Eve and Adam and Eve loved God and Satan

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hated that.

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And so, he launched an attack on the human race.

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Listen, so for example, the Bible says, when the woman saw with her eyes, that is, saw

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the tree, that it was good for food, that it was pleasant to the eyes and that it was

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desirable to make one wise, she took of its fruit and ate.

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She also gave it to her husband with her and he ate, Genesis chapter 3, verse 6.

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What happened?

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So powerful is this truth that Satan comes along, delivers the package of temptation.

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Eve unwraps it, takes it and then turns around and hands it to Adam who enters into that

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now sinful relationship with her.

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It's called the human race and by the way, that is the explanation as to why things are

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the way they are in the world today.

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But Satan knows exactly what will entice us, what will entice you.

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There's no doubt about that.

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He knows what floats your boat.

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He knows what gets your attention.

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Each of us are a little different, but again, he's been around a long time.

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He knows exactly what he's doing.

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So think about it, temptation is such a powerful tool of the enemy that does not have to succeed.

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In fact, we know this for a fact that when Jesus Christ was led into the wilderness, the

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Bible tells us he was led into the wilderness by the Holy Spirit to be tempted by the devil.

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You say, Jack, what?

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Yeah, that's the opening ministry of Jesus himself.

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Jesus Christ was announced to the world as the Messiah, right?

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He's now an adult.

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He has grown up.

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It's time for him to embark upon his earthly ministry.

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What an amazing thing the Bible says.

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The Bible tells us that he was then sent into the wilderness of Judea.

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And during that time, the Bible says for 40 days, Satan came and tempted Jesus with all

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kinds of, listen, viable temptations, real ones.

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What Satan said to Jesus were actual real temptations, incredibly important.

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But how did Jesus fight those temptations?

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He fought them by going to the Word of God, going back to what we mentioned a moment ago

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in the book of Corinthians that for you and I to be suited up as Christians in the

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21st century is to have our Bibles basically covering our lives in our head.

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And so when things come knocking on our door, here's the part that we've got to be careful

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about.

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Attemptation looks great.

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Oh boy, here comes the Amazon.

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I've been waiting for a package.

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The thing is what's inside the package that's coming to your door is something that Satan

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has ordered up, not you yourself.

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It's not the delivery you're looking for.

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It's the one he's wanting to deliver to you.

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And it's always going to be a snare, it's always going to look enticing, expect it to

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be glittery and smooth and slick and appealing.

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And if I just had one of those or if I just had her, my life would be so much better.

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We want to be careful.

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We want to take everything that comes into our lives as believers before God through

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his Word.

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What is this from you?

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Is it real?

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Is that true?

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That's what we need to do to get our minds in the place of what the Bible calls walking

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in the Spirit.

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The first of all, remember a Christian that being tempted is not a sin.

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We've talked about that.

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Being tempted doesn't mean that you are displeasing God.

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In fact, if anything, being tempted could prove that you are a threat to the enemy.

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So that's good news.

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But listen, first of all, let's look at this.

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The key to breaking temptations and lurement is to stop loving the world.

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I know that sounds easy.

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Just stop it.

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We've had our parents tell us growing up.

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Just stop that.

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Or maybe you have an addiction, right?

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And somebody says, stop it.

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Well, it's easier said than done.

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The fact of the matter is the Bible does say strongly.

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And by the way, the words are military commands in the Greek language, stop loving the

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world.

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It implies that we already love the world.

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And I don't think that's a new revelation to you that we already love the world.

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That's our problem.

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So the Bible says, stop it.

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So, Jack, how do I stop it?

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First of all, acknowledge that temptation is a danger.

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You don't want to get anywhere near opening that package.

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So you want to say, Lord, show me temptation when it's coming.

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Give me discernment when temptation is near.

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That's very, very important.

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And another thing that we want to consider Satan's tactics, Satan will dangle bait in front

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of us.

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He'll choose the right type of bait to lure you out from your protection.

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Think about someone who's a very skilled angler.

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They will cast that lure or that fly or that jig or whatever it is that's to bring the

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bass or the trout or whatever it might be out from its protection.

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Satan is skilled at this.

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He will throw out right in your proximity within the line of sight or your ability to hear

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something like, could be, I'm making this up right now, but it's real life stuff.

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Somebody at work could be complimenting you, right, on how smart you are.

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Oh, you're so nice.

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You got to watch out for that workplace stuff, man, because first of all, you get up in

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the morning, right?

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You brush your teeth, you comb your hair, you take a shower, whatever.

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And you look your best, whatever the best might be.

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And you go to work and you're not at home.

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You're at work.

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You look good.

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You're doing the thing that you're skilled to do.

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And in that environment, Satan loves to work in that setting to lure people away because

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he takes the opportunity while we are at our best and he tries to flip it on us.

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So we want to be very, very careful about that.

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So listen, the Bible says that each one of us, when we are drawn away by our own desires,

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we're enticed.

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And then when desire, the Bible says, has conceived, think about that.

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It's conceived within us.

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It gives birth to sin.

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And sin, when it is brought forth to full growth and maturity, it brings forth death, James

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chapter 1 verses 13 to 15 tells us.

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So the Bible is extremely clear.

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It's so direct.

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Without apology, watch out for temptation.

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It's going to eat you alive if you're not careful.

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And if we want to overcome temptation, we must determine now my friend who fights.

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It doesn't happen without an effort on our part.

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You see, I thought Jesus saved me.

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Yes, he saved you, but when he saved you, he brought you into a whole new world of existence.

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It's why our programming is called real life.

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When you become a believer, you enter into the real life of the very reason why you were

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created.

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And it is a fight.

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It is a war.

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There's no doubt.

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So do keep that in mind.

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To be a Christian, listen, to be a Christian is to be fighting a spiritual battle.

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Let's be honest.

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Before we were Christians, we just went along with whatever the world said.

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Hey, there's a party Friday night.

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Oh, great.

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I'll bring the beer or the drugs or the guys or the girls.

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I mean, we just do do do do.

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We went right after it because we were like those that were hooked in the jaw and pulled

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into the temptation without any fighting on our part.

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We went along with it.

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In fact, we even called people up and said, hey, you want to come on over?

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We're going to have this blow out fast.

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I'll see you there.

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We planned on sending.

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Now as believers, we don't plan on sending anymore.

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What we do is we fight.

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The temptation comes into our mind, Satan will launch it at you.

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And the thought enters, what do you do with it?

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You take it captive as we've been learning.

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You fight back.

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You push it back.

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It's extremely important that we do that.

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You've got to fight.

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In fact, listen, before we move on, the Christian, if they're not in a fight against spiritual

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darkness, kind of doubt if you're Christian at all, but Christians are called to wage war

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against this enemy, knowing that there are only two options.

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Be killing sin, or it will be killing you, said John Owen.

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And that's a tremendous statement.

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That's true.

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Start thinking of it that way.

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That every day you get out of bed, you're going to war, right?

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We're going to war against an invisible enemy.

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That's incredibly and seriously important.

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So listen, though, we will never become sinless, never, not until we die.

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We will fight sin in this life, and there will be times when we will give in.

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We don't want to, but it could be a thought life issue, whatever it might be.

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It could be an actual stunt that we wind up doing against God.

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The point is this, we as people become sinless in doing sinless, not sinless, but we begin

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to sinless as we grow along with Jesus.

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As Christ grows within us, and we take the Word of God seriously, we become more, listen

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for it, we become more of His disciples.

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That's the key.

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To be a disciple of Jesus Christ is to become someone who's following Him.

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And when He says, I'm going to lead you, I'm going to guide you.

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Makes me think about what David said in the 23rd Psalm.

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Lord, lead me beside still waters.

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Take me to pastures that are green.

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Cause me to be safe.

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God will give you the strength, and you will be safe because of your proximity to Christ,

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not sin, not temptation.

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So watch this as we wrap this up.

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Don't be the kind of Christian that is thinking, well, how close can I live to the world and

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still be a Christian?

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Christians don't think like that.

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The way that we think is that we want to press into Jesus more and more.

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We want to draw closer to Him.

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We want to get closer every day with Him.

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And that's why we're doing these programs.

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I think, look, you're sitting here watching, and I'm standing here talking to you.

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We could all be doing other things, right?

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We could go snow skiing, sailing, beach, ride bikes, whatever it is.

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So what are we doing here right now?

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We are committed here at real life to bring you content that is going to suit you up for

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battle.

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We believe this is real.

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Jesus said it's real.

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If you're honest with yourself, you know that the battle is real, and we're all about

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getting you suited up in the Bible by putting on the armor of God.

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So if you'd like to find out more, you can go simply go easy to jackhibs.com and find

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out that there's more teaching, there's more material.

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There are more things there for you to grow in the grace and knowledge of Jesus Christ.

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So we encourage you to do that, but my friend do remember this.

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If you're tempted, you are not sinning.

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If you're tempted, you are called to fight.

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Fight the temptation.

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And as you fight the temptation, you'll be drawing from the Word of God.

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As you draw from the Word of God, you are pressing into Christ.

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To do that, you are becoming his disciple.

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When Jesus said come and follow me, look at the places he took them.

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When he said come and follow me, I'll make you fishers of men.

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He didn't take them to Disneyland.

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He didn't take them on a picnic.

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He took them to the strongholds of Satan himself.

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Is that awesome?

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Friends, listen, if Christianity to you is boring, you're doing it wrong.

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Something's wrong.

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Your Christian experience should be radical, dynamic, full of life, full of battles, full

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of victories, full of engagements.

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I don't know about you, but that sounds thrilling.

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And you know why this is true?

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Because though I may be a Christian, maybe you are, not sure.

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Maybe you're contemplating Christ, thinking about Him.

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That's one thing I know for sure.

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I'm not involved in any religion.

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I don't care about religion.

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I don't want anything to do with religion.

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And by the way, Jesus spoke out against organized religion more than anybody in the Bible.

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God is inviting you to have a personal relationship with Him.

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And you simply experience that by saying, Lord, forgive me, I'm a sinner.

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I ask you to wash my sins away because you died on the cross for me.

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You rose again from the dead.

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You're my savior.

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I recognize what the Bible says that it's all about you, Jesus.

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And I want to give you my life.

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Help me read your word.

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Help me find a church of worship that I might grow and meet other Christians.

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But God, thank you for saving me.

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Because if you pray that prayer, that you believe that Jesus died on the cross and rose

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again from the dead, for you, personally, he's a personal savior.

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Your mom can't decide that for you.

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Your dad, your parents, your brother, sister, your priest, your Pope, the pastor can't decide

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that for you.

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You've got to make that decision on your own.

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But if you make that decision, the Bible says, based on the Word of Jesus, the Holy Spirit

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comes and lives inside of you.

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And in that moment, you become a new creation.

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And in that moment, you begin to live a brand new life.

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God does it.

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You don't have to push Christianity up a hill.

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Christianity is the Holy Spirit's work of putting Christ inside of you.

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And from that moment on, your life will begin to change.

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Your thoughts will begin to change.

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Your life will begin to change.

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You'll start to reassess your values.

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And your morals will begin to change.

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The things that we're appealing now are not so appealing anymore.

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And new thoughts will end in your mind.

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God will be speaking to you.

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And all the while, he's making you a new creation.

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He's fashioning you into a little representation of who he is.

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Following Jesus is the greatest thing in the universe.

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It always has been.

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It always will be.

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A friend, listen, with all of your heart, give yourself to Jesus Christ.

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You will never regret it.

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He said, I will never leave you or forsake you.

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He will never abandon you.

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Jesus said, all those who will come to me, I will never turn away.

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Let's pray right now.

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Lord Jesus come into my life.

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I want you to save me from my sins.

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And I want this truth I've been hearing about.

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I want to turn over my life into your hands.

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And I hand the reins of my life, the controls of my life,

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into your hands, Jesus.

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And I ask you to save me.

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I ask you to make me your child.

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I ask you to write my name in your book of life.

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I am today becoming a follower of Jesus.

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In your name I pray, amen.

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Kid is walking up the slide.

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Hi all, again, really?

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Auto trader.

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Buy your car online, really.