Lessons Learned in the Temptation of Jesus – Dr. Charles Stanley

we have to decide how we're going to respond to temptation and the way jesus responded simply this go to the word what did god say and here's what god has said you do not have to yield i have put a limitation on the temptation of every single one of my children so that i have made a way of escape you do not have to do it that's the word of god next on in touch lessons learned in the temptation of jesus all of us have to face temptations of some sort and probably until the last day of our life we'll be dealing with something doesn't mean that you do the same thing all the time but temptation is just a part of life look at this awesome corrupt evil vile society in which we live but adam and eve had to deal with that and there was none of this and every generation has had to deal with it so we can't blame it on somebody else and something else because we have a fallen nature and because we live in a fallen world temptation is something we have to deal with probably most every day not every day necessarily and it doesn't mean that you deal with the same temptations all the time or maybe as many as you did before you were at this point in life but it's there and the issue is this how do you deal with it a lot of people will live their whole life and never decide how to deal with temptation it just happens that when it hits them for some reason this is the way they respond and if this hits me here i'll respond this way so they don't have any real method of responding is there a way to deal with temptation that was can i build some kind of defense can i look ahead and respond and know that this this will always work probably most people would say no because we're all different if that's true then that means we're all subject to the satanic power the power of the devil to hit us from every side every angle any time anywhere and down we go that is not the will of god the purpose of god or the plan of god so you say well can we live without temptation no but we don't have to yield to it unless we choose to you say but you know what you just don't know how tempted i am and you don't know that the kind of temptation i'll deal with so let me say two things number one if you've never trusted jesus christ as your personal savior you're on your own you don't have in a real defense because you're dealing with someone who's got the answers and knows exactly when to hit you where to hit you and how long to hit you to bring you down so if you're not a believer you don't have a chance you don't have a choice if you are you have the opportunity to understand what temptation's like what it's about what it really is what is the goal of it who's behind it and that you can live not without temptation but without continuous falling you say well will you ever reach a stage in your life where you're not tempted anymore i doubt it will will you ever live to a place in life where some things don't bother you anymore i think that's true but as far as temptation absolutely out of your life no it may be something as simple as you just gossip you gossip to 20 you gossiped at 40 60 80. you're still doing it and you're still asking god to forgive you or it may be something far more serious than that and many people do they live with sin in their life they live facing the same temptation over and over again and this is that conclusion well i guess that's just the way it is that's the way it is that everybody's tempted by something and so this happens to be mine and so i guess i'll just have to live and die with it you don't have to you may live and die with the temptation but not falling to it not succumbing to it not being defeated by it but that's a matter of your attitude and your understanding and the possibility of building a defense in your life to protect you well the best place to go that i know to find out how to deal with temptation is with the one who conquered it every single time and that's jesus it's not his will that you and i live falling into temptation it is his will that we live the kind of life that has a defense a mechanism a plan that when we are attacked by the devil we know what to do next so that's what this message is all about and i want you to turn if you will to the fourth chapter of matthew and those first 11 verses give us an account of jesus facing temptation and i want us to see what can we learn from this experience he had in order to protect ourselves from falling notice i didn't say protect ourselves from being tempted but to protect ourselves from falling in the temptation when it hits us so beginning in this uh fourth chapter and i want to start with the first word because the first word is important when he says then what's then well you turn back in your bible and find out what happened right before this what happened right before this is the time in which jesus was baptized and in the 14th verse but john tried to prevent him saying i have need to be baptized by you and do you come to me but jesus answering said to him speaking of john permitted at this time for in this way it is fitting for us to fulfill all righteousness then he permitted him or baptize him after being baptized jesus came up immediately from the water and behold the heavens were opened and he saw the spirit of god descending as a dove and lighting on him and behold a voice out of the heavens said this is my beloved son in whom i am well pleased see you so what's that got to do with temptation look at that word then that means that what we're about to read happened right after this well is that important it is extremely important and i'll show you why in a moment so then beginning in chapter 4 verse 1 jesus was led up by the spirit into the wilderness to be tempted by the devil and notice it says he was lit up he didn't just wander up there he was let up and if you notice he says led up by the spirit the spirit of god and so this event in jesus life very important and planned and had a purpose so led up into the wilderness to be tempted by the devil and after he'd fasted 40 days and 40 nights he then became hungary and the tempter came and said to him if you're the son of god what's most important word if you are the son of god he didn't say since you are but if you are the son of god command that these stones become bread remember he'd been fasting for 40 days so he's rather hungry but he answered and said it is written man shall not live on bread alone but on every word that proceeds out of the mouth of god then following that the devil took him into the holy city and had him stand on the pinnacle of the temple which is very high in fact about 150 feet high if you go all the way down to the valleys about 450 feet and he said to him if you are the son of god not since you are if you are the son of god throw yourself down for it is written now the devil is quoting scripture he will command his angels concerning you and on their hands they will bear you up so that you will not strike your foot against the stone jesus said to him now you can quote scripture so can i on the other hand it is written you shall not put the lord your god to the test again the devil took him to a very high mountain and showed him all the kingdoms of the world and that glory all the kingdoms of the world and their glory everything and he said to him all these things i will give you if you fall down and worship me then jesus said to him go satan for it is written you shall worship the lord your god and serve him only then the devil left him and behold angels came and began to minister to him now let's define briefly very briefly what a temptation is and i'll have some definition up here temptation is simply an enticement to get a person to act contrary to god's will so any time that you and i attempted to do something wrong it is a temptation to follow other than god's will and purpose and plan it's to do it our way so look an enticement to get a person to act contrary to god's will and so this is exactly what satan's doing here he said now if you're the son of god if you're the son of god if you're the son of god knowing that he was tempting him in that fashion it's a temptation to disobey god and so obedience is absolutely essential to walking with the lord disobedience gets us in trouble and we disobey him because we are enticed by something something somebody says something somebody does something awful we have and so enticed to be disobedient to god whatever the temptation may be it may be the temptation to say something that we shouldn't say look like something that we should not look like think the way we should not think you name it temptation comes in many forms and so it is an enticement to be disobedient to god now what we deal with here is the tempter himself and i want us to look at this for a moment because who is the tempter the tempter is the devil somebody says i don't believe in the devil ask adam and eve if they thought there was a devil and asked me if i think there is one yes there is a devil you can call him satan you can call him devil you can call him tempter slander accuser father of lies all the names the bible gives him but the devil is somebody so let me give you a little definition uh since you don't think of him somebody dressed in a i can remember this when i was growing up the devil just in a red outfit or the long tail and horns and a pic pitchfork and i thought scared me to death but anyway what's the truth the tempter isn't watch this an intelligent being that is completely evil and is directly involved in perpetrating evil in the lives of individuals as well as much larger scale which is the whole world so he is an evil being an intelligent being so he's not someone you can just forget and push aside and say there is no such thing let me just say this to you if you don't believe there is one you've had it because the truth is he's already successful he already has you in the state of unbelief which is exactly where he wants you the devil doesn't want anybody to believe that he exists or to label him in any fashion or to accuse him of doing anything that's bad so if you say i don't believe in the devil that's a figment of your imagination then you're saying that god lied jesus lied much of the bible is not true then how do you explain all the evil things that are going on in the world somebody says well they just happen or where do they start well it just happened well wait a minute if it just happened it starts somewhere the bible is clear where it started the bible is clear about who's behind it all and the bible is clear about how you and i are to respond to him jesus said he's the father of lies now watch this so if you say i don't believe in him fine the bible says the one that you don't believe in is the father of lies he's lied to you and you've accepted his lie and so you will live unto listen you will live under the penalty of believing satan's lie that he does not even exist my friend that's spiritual suicide you need to ask yourself the question do i really believe that or am i just trying to rationalize my sin well what what's motivating your sin that's just who i am well who are you if you are living in sin disobeying god deliberately or willfully fulfilling temptation satan has you right exactly where he wants you not believing in him but following his plan to wreck and ruin your life so there is a devil there is satan and all of us have to deal with him in some fashion or the other and so when i think about somebody says where did he come from he's a fallen angel he shows up in the garden of eden and he's been working ever since and he's worked on me all of my life i'm sure and he's worked in every one of our lives he'll do anything watch this he will do anything to destroy us up to the point that god has put a level and a point in which he absolutely cannot go beyond that so when somebody says the devil made me do it no he didn't he may have he may have challenged you but ultimately you have a will of your own when people deny there is a devil watch this you deny you deny a an awesome indescribable immeasurable powerful source of evil in the world the very object of his existence as far as he's concerned is your destruction and the fact that you deny that he exists is foolish and you need to ask yourself the question what is the truth about it so you can begin by saying well let's put it this way do you believe jesus well you're already in trouble if you have to say well either you do or you don't and the testimony of jesus is the devil is a powerful being evil being who tempted even jesus the eternal son of god and our savior so right after he had this awesome experience of being baptized the spirit of god coming upon him and and god just blessing him blessing him and blessing him in this experience then what does god do he sends him into the wilderness you say that doesn't look very fair and i would say why didn't he let him just enjoy the experience well he did enjoy it but his watch this listen carefully god doesn't do anything without a purpose god doesn't react and respond he has a purpose so he gave him this awesome experience to introduce him at the beginning of his ministry and so when he comes upon the scene john baptizes him the beginning of his awesome ministry and so the scripture says that then he was led up by the spirit into the wilderness he didn't just drift up there he didn't find himself up there he was led the scripture says by the spirit of god into the wilderness and he says for the verse specific purpose came off of this behind into the wilderness the scripture says to be tempted by the devil why in the world would god allow the devil to tempt his son probably more than one reason but remember this one of the primary reasons god allows testing and trial in their life is to prepare us but paris oftentimes for greater testing and greater trial and so what jesus is suffering here or experiencing is the fact that the father is now getting him ready to face the reality of his awesome ministry so the spirit of god leads him up there the bible says to be tested now it's interesting that when satan shows up he doesn't show up just any time he watch this carefully he shows up at the point because he works the same thing in your life and mine he shows up at the point in those 40 days that jesus would be physically the weakest therefore the most vulnerable to satan from satan's point of view and so this would be true of us we fasted 40 days uh with no food we'd be physically weak probably emotionally weak and satan hit us with something uh we would be more prone to be disobedient than if we had sat down at a nice meal with our friends and had prayer so here is the devil and he's coming at this point in jesus life when he thinks this is the time to get him at the time when he is being prepared for his ministry and being tested he had to be tested because god was sending him as the savior into the world and he was going to be tested all of his life from carpenter to awesome preacher deliverer healer savior redeemer and so forty days of listening to god that's what he was doing listening and talking to the father lord you know what you and can you imagine the kind of conversation that went on between him and god it was an awesome awesome time of listening to the father and so now after end that's 40 days satan shows up and listen to what he says and the tempter came and said to him watch this not since you are but not now that you are but if you are the son of god command that these stones become bread if you are not sincere but if you're the son of god in other words if if you who you say you are then you have the power to turn these stones in the bread and what he was saying is why don't you just use your power your divine supernatural power the truth is why don't you misuse it by turning stones in the bread that be very impressive and besides that would be a way of satisfying your hunger in a miraculous way and so jesus said to him he didn't get an argument with him he said it is written watch this carefully it is written man shall not live on bread alone but on every word that proceeds out of the mouth of god now what i want you to see is this jesus didn't have to come up with an idea of how to deal with satan when he was tempted 40 days he'd been listening to god preparing for the ministry that god had called him to do and so when satan attacks him if you're the son of god you're hungry in fact you feel like you're just starving well these stones you have the power to turn them into bread delicious scrumptious bread you know what kind of bridge your mother used to make you it'd be just like that and jesus said to him it is written in the word of god man shall not live by bread alone but by every word that proceeds out of the mouth of god watch this carefully jesus had a plan he had a plan for dealing with temptation and the plan was you go to the father you go to the word of god what does the word of god say now jesus already knew this paul came along right into the corinthians and he put it this way no temptation comes at you it's taken you but such as is common to man we all have it but god is faithful who will not permit you to be tempted above what you're able to bear but will make a way of escape that's the promise of god if you don't know that promise and you get hit with something really hard you say well listen god you knew i couldn't handle that and that was too much for me and you let me be tempted and it's your fault no he says go to the word of god it is written what's written it's written is this god will not allow one of his children to be tempted or tried more than you are able to bear depending on trusting in him he says he's put a limit on it now if you're not a christian you have no limitation you if you're not a believer listen you have no defense against the devil he's going to win every time you may be strong to a degree but he's going to win there is no way to win against the devil who knows all the strategy all the deception and all the things that he camouflages so we cannot see you cannot beat the devil at his game of temptation it's impossible and so this is why listen jesus then said to him well let's talk about this food business for a moment well let me just tell you about food my heavenly father created food and i know all about food no he said there's just one thing you're tempting me to disobey god here's what the word of god says you attempting me to get a crowd by jumping off the temple this is what god says i'm going by the cross you tempted me to worship you instead of my heavenly father this is what the word of god says we have a plan jesus plan was go to the word of god now you say well suppose i don't know where to go well watch this now if you have a plan the plan has some parts to it right and the first part is go to the word of god and find those verses that are verses of protection like a shield when you attempted and he said this is just one of them he says he he said a limitation so if i'm tempted first thing i need to do is say well listen thank you father that you've set a limitation on this and i do not have to yield so i need some ammunition i need a defense and my defense is the word of god now i may say well i have a defense well that defense has parts to it and that's verse after verse after verse in the word of god that makes me realize i do not have to yield i do not have to surrender to that and you need to find those verses in the scripture that apply in a way that appeals to you or what you have to face in life and so somebody says well well you know i know that's true but you just don't understand me i do understand i understand that all of us are fallen creatures when we trusted jesus as our savior he came to live within us through the holy spirit and the holy spirit of god is the one who listened does what he ignites our faith in other words our faith gets a charge when we are tempted by the devil to do something wrong and we turn to the lord he there's a charge that comes a charge of confidence and assurance that i do not have to yield to that the promise of god is that i don't have to and that he'll protect me in the process you say well why don't you give me some verse of scripture that i could use well if i did what you do you just use that one you've got to find one that best that suits you for example it may be that you have a problem of being angry towards somebody well found the world of getting the word of god and see what it says about anger and maybe it's immoral see what he says that's something that's immoral or maybe you have a problem with with greed find out what he says about in other words go to the word of god that's what jesus did listen it's evident jesus just had one plan and watch this jesus didn't get in any arguments with the devil if you do that you're gonna lose every time he's smart he's intelligent he listen you and i don't even know all of our weaknesses he knows them he's practiced on us long enough he knows exactly when we're the weakest when we're the strongest well to hit us who to hit us by whatever it might be so what we have to ask is lord what how do i defend myself against temptation i build listen i build a foundation of strong truth so that wherever satan fires his dart i have a defense and my defense is the word of god and so jesus said to him he said very simple he said we can't just eat bread alone in other words i'm not going to misuse my power to satisfy my hunger so then say the bible says then the devil took him to the holy city and had him stand on the pinnacle of the temple as we said at the top about 450 feet down to the valley floor and he said to him again if you're the son of god now watch this listen carefully if you think satan's going to hit you one time and forget it this is the son of god and he he defeated satan one time satan comes right back again he says in the same way if you're the son of god throw yourself down and then he quotes the scripture think about how subtle satan is not only did he tempt him to do something wrong but he quoted the scripture to defend it he says for it is written he will command his angels concerning you and on their hands they will bear you up so that you will not strike your foot against the stone so he said look here's here's the word of god have you ever had anybody come to you and give you a verse of scripture to pray a verse of scripture to defend their sin absolutely and so he comes back at jesus again so when god gives you watch this carefully you listen and say amen when god gives you a victory is what you can expect watch out so he says jesus said to him on the other hand he says in other words satan you you quoted this one let me give you one and that is you shall not put the lord your god to the test and so what happens satan is buffed again here's what god says both times gee watch this carefully jesus did not get in an argument with the devil whenever you get in the argument with the devil you have lost first of all you have acknowledged that he has some bit of uh of a foothold somehow you've acknowledged that well maybe he's right or maybe this or maybe that you can't argue with the devil when you attempt it the right response is immediate go into the word of god what does god say for example somebody well somebody will try to rationalize their immoral living and god says thou shalt not commit adultery so what does not mean what no which thou shalt not steal thou shalt not bear false witness thou shall not kill what in the world does not mean it means exactly what it says and that is i shall not do it i must not do it it's not right and so when satan hits us we have to be careful we don't get an argument with him and oftentimes his will happens somebody says well you know i have been tempted but i've been talking to my friends or your friends was acting like the devil probably and saying look nobody's perfect so your friends can be such powerful tools the devil uses or even somebody in your family well we all go to this church now you go to that church you act like you don't love us anymore and you're critical of us because we do all the things that you think are wrong and so on and on and on that goes there's no limitation to the kind of stuff that they can throw at you what's the right response here's what god says here's what god says if if god says that let me ask you a question what argument do i have the argument is useless it has no foundation you have to ask yourself the question where did that argument come from if it is a contradiction to the word of god you must not believe it because god's word is true and somebody says well i don't believe the bible well what you just is you confess that satan has you in his grip and he can just move on to something else unbelief is a confession of satan's victory in your life and so can this confession or shall we say this boasting about i don't need religion religion is a weakness religion is just a form of a weak people well i would simply say to you sir or ma'am whoever you may be you've just confessed to that your weakness the devil got ahold of you he conquered you he has you in his grip so that there's no there's no sense in you arguing about anything because you are you've already surrendered yourself to it and the truth is satan can get into somebody's life with pride and arrogance and what happens is he has a heyday because oftentimes people listen to error because of a person's position in life every time jesus faced it here's what he did he said it is written so here he's testing him again to misuse his power and besides that to say listen the best way to get a big crowd the quickest way for you to have a bunch of follow great followers is just if you throw yourself down just get up on the temple and put it in the paper get in the news you're going to jump at a certain time all these people will be out there listening and watching and they'll be so excited they'll be clapping and watching this happen you jump down you land on your feet and they'll just go wild and then when you say i'm the son of god i'm the savior they'll believe it no problem jesus said i'm not going to misuse my power and avert the plan of god and do what god wants me to do in a way that is displeasing and dishonorable to him what you're telling me to do watch this always a hook in satan's temptations what you're telling me is jesus if you listen you can avoid the cross you can avoid the cross if you just do what i said jump off the top of the temple you'll have a crowd it'll be all over the world before you know it anything satan tempts you with it may look real profitable promising real satisfying if you first look but if you'll get under and look again you'll find there's a trap there's a snare it's full of lies it's not of god it'll ultimately destroy you and the world is full of lies the world is full of lies and so that's why whatever we face in life we have to ask ourselves the question what's the truth because the truth is there are penalties to sin here is a divine truth that even the most educated ungodly or a godly person cannot prove different we reap what we sow more than we sow later than we sow period that's that is that is a scientific principle it is a natural principle it is a spiritual principle and people who boast that they don't need god they don't need this at any other if they can just get a glimpse of the end of their life and they'll realize that there's a day coming when there consequences to their unbelief and their disobedience so he said if you're the son of god just jump and you'll have what you need without the cross and so he quotes this scripture of what god says he'll do and then he he quotes him back one don't put the lord thy god to the test then again the devil took him to a very high mountain and showed him all the kingdoms of the world and their glory and he said to him all these things i will give you if you fall down and worship me now if you take your route you'll never get them all if you take your route you can't live that long but if you'll just fall down and worship me i will give you the kingdoms of the world well of course that's another one of satan's lies and of course what did jesus what did jesus say he says get out of here satan for it is written you shall worship the lord your god and serve him only every single time jesus used the same method of dealing with temptation now i don't think any of us can improve on that method and think about this here's here's what you have the privilege of doing you can build you can build this wall of strength you can build this resource you can build this armor before you against temptation does that mean it'll never break through no but it means that you build into your life the word of god if the word of god is a vital part of your thinking a vital part of your decision making a vital part of your lifestyle you that is the word of god is a vital part of your life it's it's it's something that you read daily it's something that you believe from cover to cover it it is a pattern for your life the promises of god are here the power of god is here if you will build the truth of god into your life you will build a barrier i'm not saying that you'll never get tempted naturally you're going to get tempted i'm not saying that you'll never falter because this we still live in these bodies and we live in a corrupt world but you will have a resource and you will have a defense against the devil that listen you will falter fewer and fewer and fewer times and the things maybe that had a grip on you that you think well god i won't how could i ever get rid of this the word watch this the word of god can break any bondage no matter what it is if you read it get it in your mind get in your heart pray over it and you begin to think the way god thinks because if you think the way god thinks you'll begin to act the way god acts and so jesus said this this is the way this is the way you deal with it just go to the word now when somebody uh discusses with you temptation and sin and so forth and you start talking about going to the word here's what they're going to say i don't believe i don't believe the bible well they've victims of satan well how do you know that's what it means or they will say well that's that's your interpretation how many times have i heard that that's your interpretation and then i want to say to them what's your interpretation you know what they say nothing this book this book is our defense against the devil he hates it this is why our colleges and seminars are so full of professors who want to say the bible is not true that's an ancient book very ancient how ancient ancient is god i mentioned that it has no time because this is the voice of god put in print this is the life of god put in print this is this this is this is the message of god the promise of god the power of god the plan of god put in prince so that you and i will have a resource that we can turn to jesus said the way you deal with temptation the way you deal with the devil is that you turn him focus him quote to him on the word of god whatever it might be now somebody says well you know what's your favorite verse and so forth you find your favorite verse that is you know where you attempted the most and for somebody just to read the ten commandments and god says thou shall not well for some people that's enough but some people may not be enough and all through this book here's what you're going to find the word of god there are so many promises in the word of god of his help and strength and guidance and protection and watch care and the reason i go back to first corinthians 10 13 is he says no temptation not any no exception no temptation it can include yours no temptation will overtake you will hit you but such as this common demand you can say well god you know nobody else is in my position millions of people have been in your position god you know nobody hurts like i heard yes they do hurt like you heard well what you listen one of the greatest acts of pride is to say but oh god i'm different no you're not different you're living in sin disobeying god that's not different and so he says he will put a limitation when god says he will put a limitation on the temptation no matter what it is so that you can bear that is so you can walk through it you can have victory no matter what when listen if i said here's what you ought to do no what does god say he says he puts a limitation on your temptation so that whatever it is it can't get any heavier than that because he loves you and because he loves you he's going to limit the testing that you and i have to endure now let's say okay that being true but suppose i don't know the word of god you're in trouble when you face the devil and his temptations and his trials in your life just knowing john 3 16 is not enough there are many verses of promise of the power of god that he'll never leave you nor forsake you lord you never face a single temptation alone you say well you know i live alone and i'm having a hard time and it's just so bad being alone you're not alone if you've trusted jesus christ as your savior by his own confession he's living on the inside of you listen if jesus is within me according to his word i have everything i need to be able to walk obediently before him so i can't blame it on any of that the truth is this i can't blame my yielding the temptation on anything or anybody somebody says well you know i just didn't grow up believing it well get ready to start believing in other words if the truth is here believe it jesus said every time go to the word go to the word go the word here's what here's what my father said here's what i'm saying to you you don't have to live in sin you don't have to yield a temptation you say but it's so strong sure it's strong the devil doesn't come along and say well i want to get you now what he says i want you so temptation doesn't come as simple plain and easy it comes as a strength of the devil to defeat you drag you down in unbelief and weakness until you yield to the devil you may not believe in him remember this that does not remove him you don't even have to believe in god if you don't believe in god do you think that affects god no it doesn't affect him it affects you so unbelief doesn't affect god unbelief affects the person who is not a believer and when i think of all the wonderful promises that god has given to us in his word how to live a godly life walk in obedience to him and all of us who try to walk an obedient life to him for us it's so foolish to try to live without god there is a pain and suffering and heartache and rejection and all the rest multiplied many times for people who do not know the lord somebody says well i'm going to make it somehow what's that what somehow no you've been deceived the truth is if you've never trusted jesus christ as your savior you're in trouble you see there's only one way to live and live it right and that is having trusted jesus christ as your personal savior until you surrender your life to jesus and he comes into your life through the holy spirit and he builds the defense and he begins to work in your life and you see it's not us it's the spirit of god within us that responds to temptation as we obey the lord so if you waiting until one day you feel like you can handle temptation you'll never be saved but if you're willing to say to him lord i've sinned against you i keep on sinning against you i don't want this in my life i want to ask you to forgive me of my sin i receive jesus christ as my personal savior by faith i believe when he went to the cross he paid my sin dead and full and today i just surrendered my life to him thank you for this message lord and i pray that you'll teach me how to live this life in the power of the holy spirit will he do it yes he will and if you are a believer this morning you now are inexcusable with dealing with temptation very simple very simple message is what jesus did here's what we'll do but did jesus succeed will we succeed yes because the spirit of god within us will enable us to walk through all kinds of temptation heartache burdens in life does it mean we'll never falter no it doesn't mean that because we're human we live in these human bodies of ours we live in a corrupt evil vile world but we'll be victorious when he is in control of our life amen and father how grateful we are for this awesome passage of scripture that's so simple so plain but so perfectly built for your children to show us how to walk in victory every day of our life we love you and we praise you and we bless you and pray that whatever is going on in all of our lives that we will resort to you that their own nobilities and talents and skills resort to you trust you going to your word and drawing from this awesome spring this wave of truth exactly what we need to meet every issue in life in jesus name amen as believers when we face temptation we should follow jesus example and turn to god's word for strength and wisdom at intouch.org learn more about how to respond when god allows trials in our lives there you can see today's message lessons learned in the temptation of jesus and find a library of free and inspiring messages from dr stanley sermon notes and resources to help encourage your resolve in times of temptation download the in touch app to take the teaching of dr stanley on the go or follow us on youtube facebook and twitter leading people worldwide into a growing relationship with jesus christ and strengthening the local church in touch with dr charles stanley is a presentation of in touch ministries this program is made possible by the grace of god and your faithful 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Channel: In Touch Ministries

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Keywords: Charles F. Stanley Dr. Charles Stanley Dr. Stanley In Touch InTouch God Jesus Holy Spirit Christian, Charles Stanley, Jesus Christ (Deity), Religion (TV Genre), School, Temptation Of Christ (Literature Subject), Christianity (Religion), Temptation (Quotation Subject), Lesson, Teacher

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Length: 46min 24sec (2784 seconds)

Published: Tue Feb 03 2015