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UNDERSTANDING HOW TO COUNSEL & DISCIPLE PEOPLE USING THE

PLATFORM OF EXPOSURE TO

THE TEMPTATION TO SINBC&D-15

The Biblical Dynamics of Change

TEMPTATIONS ARE ALWAYS STALKING US

1 Corinthians 10:13

1 Corinthians 10:13 (NKJV) 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 SPIRITUAL LAW OF SOWING & REAPING

Galatians 6:7-9

CONSEQUENCES IN DAILY LIFE

Galatians 6:7-8; 1 Corinthians 4:5

NEGATIVE CONSEQUENCES FOR

BELIEVERSGalatians 5:19-21

NEGATIVE CONSEQUENCES BELIEVERS CAN FACE•We have lost opportunities for service if we aren’t alert to God’s leadings.

•We have a greater propensity to make the same bad choice the next time we’re tempted after having yielded to a particular sin.

•We run the risk of an early death. God's Word says if you partake with un-confessed, unrepentant sins, God will judge you and bring weakness and sickness into your life—and may ultimately take you home to heaven in an untimely death.

POSITIVE CONSEQUENCES

Matthew 6:19-21

LIFE COMES DOWN TO TWO CHOICES

Romans 6:16-23 & 1 Corinthians 3:10-15

SPIRIT LED LIVING

Matthew 16:24-27 & Galatians 2:19-21

THE HIGH COST OF SIN

THE DOWNWARD STEPS OF UNGODLY CHOICES

Choice 7-Hell sampled on Earth (Romans 1:24,26,28; 2:8)

Choice 6-Used by Satan to Tempt others (Rom. 1:32; 2 Tim. 2:26)

Choice 5-Abandonment of God for Sin (Romans 1:28)

Choice 4-Abandonment to Sin (Eph. 4:19)

Choice 3-Habitually Yielding to Sin (Romans 6:12)

Choice 2- Surrendering to Sin (Romans 6:13)

Choice 1-Trifling with Sin (Ps. 66:18)

The Platform of Exposure to the Temptation to Sin (1 Corinthians 10:13)

THE UPWARD STEPS OF GODLY CHOICES

The Platform of Exposure to the Temptation to Sin (1 Corinthians 10:13)

Choice 1-Deciding you Want to Obey God (Daniel 1:8)

Choice 2-Overcoming Sin by Faith (Hebrews 11:25-27)

Choice 3-Seeking the Habit of Surrender (Rom. 6:18; 2 Cor. 2:14)

Choice 4-Setting my Mind on Things Above (Col. 3:1-2)

Choice 5- Seeing the Beauty of Christ (Isaiah 33:17)

Choice 6-Living as an Example (Phil. 3:17)

Choice 7-Heaven (Eph. 2:6-10)

MORTIFYING MY FLESH

IS A LIFE-LONG STRUGGLE

Hebrews 4:10-13

MAKING THE CHOICE EACH DAY TO BE:LIVING FOR JESUS

LIVING FOR JESUS A LIFE THAT IS TRUE, STRIVING TO PLEASE HIM IN ALL THAT I DO, YIELDING ALLEGIANCE, GLAD-HEARTED AND FREE—THIS IS THE PATHWAY OF BLESSING FOR ME.

LIVING FOR JESUS THRU EARTH’S LITTLE WHILE, MY DEAREST TREASURE THE LIGHT OF HIS SMILE, SEEKING THE LOST ONES HE DIED TO REDEEM, BRINGING THE WEARY TO FIND REST IN HIM.

CHORUS: O JESUS, LORD AND SAVIOR, I GIVE MYSELF TO THEE, FOR THOU IN THINE ATONEMENT DIDST GIVE THYSELF FOR ME. I OWN NO OTHER MASTER—MY HEART SHALL BE THY THRONE: MY LIFE I GIVE, HENCEFORTH TO LIVE, O CHRIST, FOR THEE ALONE.—THOMAS O. CHISHOLM (1866-1960)