Spiritual Warfare: DISTRACTED: The Way to Escape Temptation

Introduction

Let me begin with a discipleship question: how will you follow Jesus in prayer and dependence on God this week?

Main Points

In this lesson shaped by Calvary Boise's teaching on DISTRACTED: The Way to Escape Temptation, Christ invites us to receive truth with humility, practice repentance, and walk in faithful obedience.

Sin and Salvation

We've been studying this book of 1st Corinthians with the theme in mind of distraction this is a church that had taken their eyes. Off of Christ and they begun disputing about other things secondary issues and they've gotten real prideful and their preferences and the style of.

• Church that they're looking for and their philosophy they've gotten ok with some sin that has crept in and all of these distractions week.
• By week by week we're looking at the same that can happen to any one of us at any time a church can get.
• Distracted a believer can get distracted and what can we do to avoid the pitfalls of distraction and stay focused on Christ and today.
• We're gonna look at one of the main ways that we have to do that is by knowing when temptation is creeping into our.

Lives to take us off of God's goodness and point us towards something that will not be good and so our key verse today. Comes to us in first Corinthians chapter 10 verse 12 it says this therefore let him who thinks he stands take heed lest he.

Hope in Suffering

I hope on one particular day I was really living in that I think I'm doing well I delivered pizzas all day I'd gathered. All of my tips I was just entering into my weekend and I pulled up to my parents house where I still lived and.

• I was ready to just sit back and enjoy I parked my little pizza delivery truck and started to walk inside and then I.
• Look back and I saw that my truck was slowly inching backwards I had actually left it in neutral now when you leave a.
• Car in neutral the smallest incline can make that car build up momentum and eventually take it somewhere that you never intended to go.
• For the purposes of my lesson it wasn't just a small incline that ended with a very vanilla ending this small incline led to.

A large hill and at the bottom of this hill was a pond and I can't believe I'm sharing this story now because when. This happened I swore that I'd go to my grave without anyone hearing of this foolish mistake that I'd made but I look back.

Faith and Obedience

Instead of walking in the promises of God you've crash to the destruction of sin and that's the bad news this morning but we. Have to keep IRS's because we're going to look at the destructive nature of temptation this morning but we're also going to preach the.

• Gospel wherever the Bible brings warning the Bible also brings opportunity to preach the gospel and so now we have verse 13 verse 13.
• Is the remedy that we're going to look at after we outline what those distractible temptations are we get to verse 13 no temptation.
• Has overtaken you except as is common to man but know this God is faithful in other words God is good what we just.
• Saying God will never let you down and when you are tempted he will not allow you to be tempted beyond what you were.

Able but with the temptation will also make the way of escape that you may be able to bear it every single one of. Us will leave this sanctuary this day and this week and whatever God has planned for you and you all have a decision to.

Sin and Salvation

That God has a special people that he wants to bless then he wants to give his promises to and that he wants to. Shine his light through and yet so often the people take the blessings of God and they fall short and so we start in.

• Chapter 10 verse 1 to look at the example it says moreover brethren I do not want you to be unaware that all of.
• Our fathers were under the cloud all passed through the sea but remember this is Paul speaking to a church that thinks they're good.
• He says the children of Israel our fathers that God captured out of Egypt broke the chains of slavery and then pointed them to.
• The promised land they passed through the Red Sea that's a miracle that's God's hand of provision opening up the waters that they would.

Walk through on dry land and then the enemies would be swallowed behind them all were baptized into Moses in the cloud and in. The sea so that Red Sea moment is a picture of baptism where they've broken free from slavery now they're walking towards the promises.

Life in the Church

In the desert the fulfillment of breaking the chains of slavery and delivering the promise is the rock of Christ and they had a. Picture of the rock in the water they had it all just like the church in Corinth has what they need they had good.

• Leadership they had the sacraments they had the communion bread and the wine they had baptism they had disputing over Paul or Peter or.
• Apollo's amazing church leaders and yet you can have it all and we can belong to a church age that has it all don't.
• We all have the freedom to wake up an hour after our normal wake-up time because we've all slept in and we can come.
• To church and we can hear the word of God proclaim and we can be baptized into the body of Christ and we can.

Celebrate the communion together and we can worship openly and yet we can have it all and if we're not careful temptation can still. Creep in and this is the warning Paul gives them now in verse 5 but with most of them God was not well pleased.

Life in the Church

And the answer isn't always what's the exact theology the answer is what's the most loving thing to do when we come to one. Of those gray areas one of the gray areas we talked about to help us bring context to what was being discussed which was.

• Meat offered to idols one of the gray areas was alcohol and we gave the example of our church not wanting to serve wine.
• We serve juice substitute as a way to say in that gray area we want to honor those who don't drink and the reason.
• People don't drink can vary sometimes people don't drink because alcohol has destroyed their life they've become addicted or they were alcoholic and they.
• Abused it and they can no longer have a healthy relationship with alcohol so they don't do it all but there's another reason maybe.

The bigger reason that some people don't drink it's not because they have any history with it in their own consumption it's because. They watched alcohol run its course in their family they never touched it never touched her lips but they saw a picture of the.

Faith and Obedience

Take the commandment of God and just not actually do anything with them in your life disobedience the temptation to disobey will lead to. The second temptation which isn't often thought of as a temptation but it's certainly not from the Lord and that is when disobedience turns.

• Into discouragement and that's an example that Paul will give us the children of Israel disobey the Lord and then the children of Israel.
• Deal with the heavy burden of feeling discouraged because there's not satisfaction outside of the will of God for your life and the third.
• Temptation and some of you may feel this is a dangerous place to be and I hope that the word can speak to you.
• With the good news of the gospel so that you don't stay there but there is a temptation to be in despair as a.

Believer sometimes thinking that the plans of God for your life for the goodness of God for your life is actually not ever going. To work out it will never be fulfilled you should just give up on the whole thing now and now we look at the.

Conclusion

We return to the opening teaching: discipleship is not just information, it is transformation through faith and obedience to Jesus. If we receive His Word and walk it out, He will shape us into people who endure and bear fruit.

Lord Jesus, help me hear Your Word, obey it with faith, and grow as Your disciple. Amen.

Conclusion

We return to the opening teaching: discipleship is not just information, it is transformation through faith and obedience to Jesus. If we receive His Word and walk it out, He will shape us into people who endure and bear fruit.

Closing Prayer

Lord Jesus, help me hear Your Word, obey it with faith, and grow as Your disciple. Amen.