"Overcoming Temptation" Pastor John K. Jenkins Sr. (Powerful Message)

get your Bible your iPhone your iPad your Galaxy Android or your paper Bible I hope you need somebody who has a paper Bible if not the scripture will be on the screen for you heathens who didn't bring your Bibles open your Bibles the first Corinthians chapter 10 minutes to chambers already rated so powerfully today thank you for leading us in our worship today thank the lord for the united voices here strong and full force god bless you i want to talk about overcoming temptation overcoming temptation I know y'all acting like y'all ain't got no temptation but everybody in here is tempted by something everybody gets something that we attempted by everybody has something that when it calls for your when it calls your name it gets your attention when it says you who you look in that direction everybody got something like that in their life and I wanted to talk about it today because it is impossible for you and I to reach the destiny that God has for us if we're not able to learn how to overcome temptations you don't learn how to do it the devil will defeat you every time matter of fact some of you have not reached your destiny because you haven't learned how to overcome temptation sin will always take you further than you want to go and keep you longer than you want to stay and impact you greater than any way that you thoughts in whatever impact you and yet you can see other people make the same mistakes and make the same error and suffer the same consequences and yet somehow you're not smart enough not to walk down that same road go ahead paths are you preaching and teaching and doing the best I can so I wanted to talk about it because the Apostle Paul in 1st Corinthians he writes this letter to the church in Corinth the church in Corinth really could be called the First Baptist Church of Corinth it's a lot like our church because we got a little bit of everything up in here there's some sinners on your row look up and down and you see them they're there you want to know what the center looks like look at the person sitting right next to you that's what the center looks like you want to know somebody who's out of control look 2 or 3 rolls down from you there's somebody who's out of control you want to see somebody who is actually jacked up take a mirror out look right at yourself right there and Paul is talking to the church in Corinth because they got everything going on and he's talking to them about overcoming temptation and in order to talk to them about it he reaches into the past and pulls out the story of the children of Israel and he talks and expresses about them and here's what he says turn to for you are you in first Corinthians 10 I got there and we started verse number one he says moreover brethren I do not want you to be unaware that all our fathers were under the cloud all passed through the sea all were baptized into Moses in the cloud and in the sea all ate the same spiritual food and all drank the same spiritual drink stick a pin right there because he starts off in a most profound way in this tenth chapter because he says in essence all of the people who left Egypt were under the same cloud what does that mean he says it's the children of Israel were led by Moses and God led them by day by a pillar of cloud so they get up in the morning and if they saw the cloud they would follow the cloud and the cloud moved they moved but the cloud stop moving they stopped if God wanted to move at night they get up in the middle of the night and there would be a pillar of fire that would lead them by night they follow the pillar firing the day and at night and when the fire stopped they would stop and the fire moved they would move they were all under the cloud of under the pillar of the cloud and under the pillar of the fire they all was under the same leadership of Moses and that's what it's saying they were all under the cloud and they all passed through the sea and they all were baptized into Moses in the cloud and in the sea they followed Moses as leadership verse 3 they all ate the same spiritual food and all drank the same spiritual drink they was listening to the same messages from Moses Moses was their pastor and both was a great pastor by the way y'all know I'm coming back to that point in a few minutes and God used him used him to lead them out of bondage led them out of the bondage that they had and this is a significant point it is very important because they all had the same leadership they heard the same messages they heard the same teachings from Moses they all drank the same spiritual drink they all ate the same spiritual food and then verse 5 says something profound but with most of them God was not well pleased booooo that's an amazing thing they were all under the leadership of Moses God led them out of slavery out of Egypt they got to the they were headed to the promised land they got stuck up into the wilderness and they got wandering around in the wilderness why because God was not pleased with them they had the great teaching and the great ministry of Moses but they most of them that's amazing to me that the pastor says but with most of them God was not well pleased as a matter of fact the text goes on and says right here for their bodies were scattered in the wilderness you know what that means God had to cause them to die because he was not going to allow them to cross over into the Promised Land with the mentality and the sin that they had in their life and you and I need to understand that because you cannot get into the Promised Land of what God has promised for you to take you where you need to go while you're carrying the mentality and the sins that you have in your life some of you got to get this under your belt you got to understand you'll never become what God wants you to become and you'll never do what God wants you to do and you'll never be what God wants you to be while you're dragging the trash of your sin as a matter of fact what the scripture teaches us is that God had to cause them that generation to die off out of all of the adults that left Egypt only two of them crossed over into the promised land only to all the rest of them died it was their children and their grandchildren that crossed over into the promised land I don't know about you I want my children and my grandchildren across them to the promised land but hold up hold up but I want to cross over into the promised land - yeah I'm I want to get to every place that God is intended and planned for me I want to get there but but but but the but you're going to slow down this is a 12 o'clock service I do not have to rush myself I can take my time so Moses Joshua Paul y'all don't understand what it's like to preach multiple times in the day you forget about what you said and what you didn't say but with most of them God was not pleased in verse 6 and 7 this and now these things became our example to the intent that we should not lust after the evil things as they also lusted let me tell you what's happening here Moses Paul Paul is seeking to teach them a lesson through the example of the children of Israel and they had five sins that they could not overcome five sins and that they couldn't overcome and these five sins are the same things that the children in Corinth are having the problems with and guess what they're the same five things that you have problems with you got a problem with one of these five things because your neighbor say I probably got a problem with all five of these things here's the first one is in verse six then we read it again now these things became our example Paul Paul says these what happened to the children of Israel is our example that we don't make the same mistakes here's that's a mistake here's number one - the intent that we should not lust after evil things as they also lusted they had the first problem of lust they lusted somebody say they lusted they had a lust issue lusting they were lusting craving that word lust means to crave it means to want something so bad that you do almost anything to get it you want it so bad that you're like ill you'll still you'll hurt other people you're rural people's reputation you do whatever it takes to get it and not only that they love but they lusted after evil things these people were lusting and the problem is enough write this down I don't have time to go through it but you can read it when you get an opportunity in numbers 11 for those who are taking notes of numbers eat numbers chapter 11 tells the story of how they they lusted after stuff listen here's what happened when they left Egypt God freed them out of Egypt here they are traveling trying to get to the promised land and they got stuck in the wilderness but yet every day God fed them supernaturally with manna they'd wake up in the morning and when they reached out their side their tent there was food what kind of food was it was a manner they had never seen manner before matter of fact they named the food manna manna means what is this but they reach outside there tension there grab it and it could cook it and bake it and eat it and that's how they were fed supernaturally from God God there was no giant food there was no BJ's there was no shopping food warehouse well she'll be going there's no food line Wegmans there was no Wegmans giant king cake Holmes Costco's whatever there was nothing there was nothing for them there to go and get and so God supernaturally provided for them but guess what they got tired of the manna from God it is a dangerous nation that gets tired of the supernatural provisions that God's given you everything y'all might not want admitted but God has taken care of you supernaturally you can tie to the supernatural things God's going for you God's feeding you you ain't got no job God's taking care of you ain't no money coming in the house and you getting tired of it you better learn to be thankful for whatever provisions God has made to you you get a chance to read number eleven's if you go back and read chapter 11 of numbers they wanted the fish and the cucumbers and the melons and the leeks and the onions and the garlic they wanted all of the food they had when they were in Egypt enslaved they wanted to go back to Egypt they wanted to go back to slavery let me tell you something I'd rather have mana and be free didn't have the best delicate SC's of life and be enslaved when he talks about them wanting to go back to Egypt and means that they wanted to go back to slavery they wanted to go back to the thing that God delivered them from the problem is some of you are lusting after the things that God has brought you up out of you want to go back to the drugs you want to go back to that Negro that treated you bad you want to go back to that sister that treated you like a dog you want to go back to that when God brought you out you better learn to be thankful for where God brought you out of I'm preaching better than y'all are saying Amen that lusted they wanted it badly my assignment is today you're lusting after your past and you're lusting after things you should not lust after will keep you from becoming everything that God wants you to become that's not the only problem here that was the first one there's a second one written right here in verse seven Paul says to them in verse seven and do not become idolaters has were some of them has it is written the people sat down to eat and to drink and to rose up to play somebody say idolaters jot down Exodus chapter 32 if you get a chance to read Exodus 32 you will see where they bow down to idols and where were those idols you know what they did they gathered their gold they took their gold and they melted their gold and they formed a golden calf and they danced to that calf and they bowed down to that calf and they read around that calf and they pray to that calf and they worshiped that calf Paul is saying to the church in Corinth don't become idol worshipers now y'all might not realize it but we have some idols that we worship in our day and time you see the idol is that which controls your money how you spend your money where you spend your money the idol controls your schedule the idol concern controls what you will commit to we've got idols today of the same thing they had they had idols of gold and silver wood and metals they had the gold and silver idols we have it is called jewelry look at your neighbor say you know you got some jewelry that you worship they got idols of wood it's called your home they had idols of metals is your vehicle look at your neighbors say he's talking about your car here's what we do with our idols we wash our idols drive our idols we wear our idols we listen to our idols we watch our idols dance we go to our idols worship services concerts we we watch our idols videotapes we imitate our idols Oh is it not a problem that you know the third all the words to the surd you know the third song on Beyonce's latest unadvertised release you know the exact third song and all the words but you don't know where the Book of Hezekiah is in the Bible and you don't even know that there is no book of Hezekiah ain't no book called here's the car you know all the Beyonce song but you words or her song but you don't know a single verse if I ask you to quote a birds you don't know a single verse just idol worship yes when she has her concert coming to town you will rearrange your whole schedule but you ain't been to one communion service and she joined the First Baptist Church I'm just trying to tell you don't have to believe nothing I'm telling you but I'm challenging you here today it's my responsibility to challenge you that we got these idol worship somebody tell your neighbors stop bowing down the idol here's number three I'm almost finished I won't keep you long I know I only got you for a short period of time you know what verse seven says I got to say this too it says that verse seven has it as it is written the people sat down to eat and drink and rose up to play that tells me that what the idol of their day was and it's the idol still today is self-gratification really all life is about satisfying you at some point God has to make you and I understand that life is not about you it's not about what satisfies you and yet that's all they did they ate and drank and rose up to play there was no time in their schedule to serve others we all got quiet on that one I must have hit something right there but that's the problem the problem is it's all about you it's all about your schedule and it's an idol you your own Idol you worshiping yourself here's number three you gotta say Amen on that one let me see if you say Amen on this one verse number eight says let us nor let us commit sexual immorality as some of them did and in one day twenty three thousand fell I want you to be I want you to see beginning to verse eight and this third issue this earth this third temptation that they couldn't yield they couldn't resist that their consequences that go with it and with sexual immorality people start dying and the consequences that are going with it and the sin that they had was sexual immorality people were having sex outside of marriage and all kinds of crazy stuff sex and behavior people were shacking and living together sex outside of marriage amen are y'all with me have I lost you y'all got so quiet only right there I thought I had lost show thought I will just pitch it to myself it's a problem because in our culture we have become numb to sexual immorality samantha is expected that after you done dating somebody three or four weeks or less some supposed to go down it's a problem it's a problem in our culture it is a problem in that day and it's still a problem today sexual immorality is a sin you need to understand shacking is a sin having sex outside of marriage is a sin I know you don't hear it much a lot of people don't talk about it people don't preach against it people don't tell you that is wrong but make sure you've heard from this pulpit from this servant of God that I'm telling you that it's wrong it's wrong it's in pornography is wrong it's a sin it's a sin that's a problem it's a sin it's a problem and he says it's such a serious matter that verse number eight says 23,000 people died in one day with your children vision 23,000 people matter fact the total number of people who died when it happened is 24,000 somebody say 24,000 write down numbers 25 you get an opportunity to read the story in numbers 25 you'll see 24,000 people died and 23,000 of them died in one day because they become so loose with their sexual behavior we don't like to talk about it because people don't want to own up to it and accept that y'all want everything to be okay but I gotta tell you that it's wrong I get her I'm amazed and shocked not just at now not just at the premarital sex I'm talking about because y'all know sex before marriage is wrong and sex after marriage is wrong also if it's not with the person that you're married to oh you cook them Oh y'all got so quiet on that port right there I shouldn't be laughing because the number of adulterous relationships that goes on in the church is ridiculous another young lady say well pastor if if I don't give it up you're gonna roll on to somebody else let him roll on to somebody else you don't want a dog for a husband you want a man for her a dog a hump on anything the dollar hump on the curtains the dog a hunk on the cat y'all can't handle you can't handle the truth up in here you on a man who's got something respect who treats you like a queen that's you are that's what you wanna man a man a man and brothers what you want is a woman matter [ __ ] that's what you want is a woman not a home don't bribe me no email don't send me no letter a charge I have to keep him a guard to glorify and I'm trying to tell you live holy live holy holy young ladies have respect for who you are you are queen a woman of God don't give yourself up like that don't go down like that you know you know what my wife and I told our daughter last night we told my youngest daughter last night said Natalie she's in school st. now to keep on living a pure life she's a she's the most wholesome of all of our kids Jimmy's saying what about him no Jimmy you you are not kid you were the worst of all of our kids you natalie was the mo is the most wholesome of all and we said it Natalie Natalie don't worry about these young men who don't want to respect you let them go because because they'll hang out with the women that will give it up but when they get ready to get married they gonna come back to you can I get a Amen right there I'm trying to tell the ladies raise the bar and another thing and while I'm on this point I'm just trying to figure out how to say this so I won't offend nobody a lot of ladies say pastor these men don't want to get married that's true they don't want to get married let me be honest with y'all there's a lot of things that made me marry my wife a lot of reasons why I wanted to marry her one of which is I didn't want to burn that's a scripture case you don't know the Bible says is better to marry than the burn yeah and the brothers don't want to get married because they don't they can get the milk for free oh you always cheer me on tell us faster tell us I'm telling you they don't have to get married because the women are giving it up like nothing and I'm trying to raise the standard to tell you women raise rise up and be a woman of God and if they don't want to let them go I'm trying to help you understand what will keep you from reaching your destiny sexual immorality will keep you from becoming everything God wants you to become I feel I need to bond a masturbation spirit from up in here yeah okay let me write better roll-on I'm I'm getting a little bit too loose right here I need a roll-on so that's number three here's number four let me I bet a roll-on I better get out here I feel I feel something getting out of control right here number nine here's verse nine here's the fourth one nor let us tempt Christ as some of them also tempted and were destroyed by serpents there's the fourth thing is tempting Christ read numbers chapter 21 you get an opportunity what is tempting Christ tempting Christ means to question God's direction for your life ultimately the devil will try to bring you to a place where you question why and where God has brought you in your life and ultimately when you question what God has done for you you're tempting God that's what that means which your essence our questioning is the sovereignty of God and what everybody needs to understand is that the God we serve is a sovereign God he controls life he controls you he will never allow more to happen in your life and you have the capacity to handle and although he made that and is not the author even though he is not the author he permits what he knows you can handle and if you can't handle he'll hold it back can I get an amen right there for somebody so when you stop questioning God's sovereignty that's a very serious thing God does not want us and the Bible warns us about tempting Christ by questioning God's plan and purposes for your life the devil will have you questioning God's purpose and God's plan for your life do never question God's are playing pastor how can you be so sure this is true because Romans 8:28 says all things work together for good to those who love God to those who are the called according to his purpose ultimately the devil wants you to question God matter of fact not only did these Israelites question God they questioned the leadership that God put them on it they questioned pastor Moses they questioned his leadership they questioned where they were going they began to criticize him but the Bible is clear that God talked to Moses God talked to Moses when you read through the Book of Numbers I think you go through the first 12 or 13 chapters the first few words of every chapter says in the Lord spake to Moses and the Lord spake to Moses and the Lord spake to Moses y'all be clear God does not run the church through committee he raises up a leader and he runs the church to that leader that's God's way of doing it and they questioned him because they were going through some paths that they didn't understand they didn't know why they were going through the journey and some things will happen in your life that you don't understand and God will take you to some places that you don't know why you're there but you will get an understanding of it in the by-and-by sooner or later God will give you an understanding it may not be apparent now why you're going through it but sooner or later I told the Bible studies the other night he'll give you a crown on your head he'll give you a beauty for your ashes you'll give you an understanding of what you've had to go through but never question God and his sovereignty and his in in in your life and don't question his pastor come on a HiFi your neighbor and say don't question pastor Moses come on diminishes y'all supposed to be doing a high five like I just said no I didn't see it I need to see y'all save me all right I'm about to find some people up in here I think here's number five I'm almost finished listen to here's number five did y'all get number one what was it number two number three number four here's number five is in verse ten no complain had some of them also did complain and were destroyed by the destroy destroy God but Moses they complained about Moses numbers 14 jotted down we jot down numbers 14 really we get an opportunity they were finding fault with everything they found fault with the direction they were going in they complained about the people who died they complained about the water they complained about the food they got tired of the manor they've they questioned even who Moses was married to they had questions about everything and I don't know about you but if you keep on living you'll come across somebody who can find fault with everything and complain about everything complaining is not a spiritual gift we got people complaining about everything here enough we can't get our kids in the end of the Sunday school class well if we have more teachers maybe we could they complain about the traffic traffic traffic taking 45 minutes to get in and 45 minutes to get out but you ain't complaining about the Redskins game you go sit in two hours of the Redskins game two or three hours get in two or three hours to get out you don't complain about them you go to the game and they lose I'm troubled a win at least were you coming here you coming into a winning cat we're waiting up in here somebody say we winning up in here and you know what it's so much traffic you know why there's so many people here you know why you got to deal with so many season so many kids because it means that people's lives are being impacted and changed that's why so many people here that's why so much stuff stop complaining and do something about the stuff that we got issues with some complain let me close with this I'm talking about these temptations that they could not overcome they kept them from the promised land but God wants you to overcome these things and you say well pastor I see myself in some of these how do I overcome I'm glad you asked the question because right here it tells us what the answer is right here verse can I reverse 11 12 and 13 thank you verse 11 now all these things happen to them has examples and they were written for our admonition upon whom the ends of the ages have come it's written for us so that we might learn what to do what not to do that's verse 11 verse 12 therefore let him who thinks he stands take heed lest he fall verse 13 no temptation has overtaken you except such has is common demand how do you overcome temptation first of all recognize you ain't being tempted no greater than nobody else everybody's being tempted by something everybody has something that gets their attention and pulls them out so we are being tempted we all are being caught but we all have some kind of temptation but here's what I like God but God here it is right verse thing but God is faith that's a shouting point God is faithful somebody hollaback say God is faithful I'm coming in for clothes I'm bringing my plane in for landing but you got to get just right here that you can't depend on anything else but you can depend on this that God is faithful what is he faithful he will not allow you to be tempted beyond what you are able in other words when God allows the temptation to come in your life he will never allow more to come into your life that's greater than your capacity to deal with it so if it came in your life it means he knows he's already put enough inside of you to be able to deal with whatever is knocking at your door he is faithful that he will not allow you to be tempted above your ability and hold up here's number two here's the second promise here's how we overcome he says but he will with the temptation will also make the way to escape that you may be able to bear it shoutmon this point right here that when temptation walks in the house standing right next to it is a way out of it scape oh I wish I could get a shout from somebody who understood that if God if he people miss it he promises that when the temptation comes there's a way out listen y'all and get it you got let me give it back to you let me roll it back let me give it back to you again you missed a place to shout and celebrate that means when you get yourself in a situation where there they are the drugs on the table you came out of the drug light and you know you shouldn't be around the drugs but you find yourself in a situation where they're rolling the drugs out on the table and that you're being tempted to go back with it what you have to understand is even though you're in a tempting situation God has promised you that even though you're in the midst of a temptation there is also a door right over there for you to get up and walk you ain't got to believe me but you know it's true God always makes a way of escape there's a way out even before you make the hotel reservations you can hang up the phone you can disconnect from the internet you only got to say nothing you don't have to put the credit card number in there to pay for you can get out of you have the time from the time you make the reservations till you get to the hotel and even after you get in hotel the door does not disappear y'all can't handle the truth up in here I don't know why I'm preaching too but you got temptation coming this way this week and my job is to tell you there is a way out there is an escape you can get out let me boil it down to you and tell you telling them you can let me put it in simple terms don't do it don't do it don't do it don't do it don't do it don't do it casting why are you doing that cuz when tomorrow comes when winds that comes when Friday night comes when Saturday night comes and there's temptation knockin at your door I want you to hear my voice saying oh don't go in there don't buy it don't think the girl don't do it go ahead look at three or four people say don't do it don't do it don't do tella don't do it don't do it don't do it leave it alone don't walk in there don't mess with it don't do it don't call it don't tweet it don't email it don't taste page it Facebook it whatever it is don't do it don't do it there's always a way out I've done and finish father in the name of the Lord Jesus we want to overcome temptations and we're being tempted every day on all sides all fronts so many ways the enemy wants to keep us from reaching our destiny I pray today God that you would make this truth of your word a revelation for us help us to see and understand that you've made a way out for us we don't have to fall into it we don't have to succumb we don't have to yield I pray this in Jesus name help this truth permeate our hearts in Jesus name and everybody said amen amen and don't pattycake the Lord give the Lord a great big ol shout as you don't mind calling me

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Length: 40min 43sec (2443 seconds)

Published: Sat Jun 25 2016