DEEPER LIFE BIBLE CHURCH WORLDWIDE.
MONDAY BIBLE STUDY MESSAGE.
19/02/2024
MESSAGE ANCHORED BY THE GENERAL SUPERINTENDENT.
TOPIC: BELIEVERS' VIGILANCE AND VICTORY OVER TEMPTATION.
TEXT: JAMES 1:13-16.
I welcome everybody to our Bible study tonight. It's always a joy when we come together, and the power of God will work more in our lives IN Jesus' Name. Monday bible study is our Bible school, and we go from chapter to chapter, and by the time you attend over and over, you will become preacher yourself. Tonight, we are coming to James 1:13-16. It thus read: Let no man say when he is tempted, I am tempted of God: for God can not be tempted with evil, neither tempteth he any man:
1:14 But every man is tempted, when he is drawn away of his own lust, and enticed.
1:15 Then when lust hath conceived, it bringeth forth sin: and sin, when it is finished, bringeth forth death.
1:16 Do not err, my beloved brethren. Temptation will come. There is a devil in the world, there is the spirit of devil in the world and there are people in the world that would tempt the believers to sinning, but we ought to be vigilant.
POINT 1. REVELATION OF THE SOURCE AND VIOLATION OF TEMPTATION.
Temptation violates the people, and we need to know the source of such violation.
I. The regrettable statement on the temptation of subjects.
James 1:13; Genesis 3:11-12; Isaiah 63:17; Job 31:33.
God test to bring out our value and consecration, He doesn't tempt but He test to know our minds of following Him, but when it comes to temptation to sin, it's coming from the devil. God cannot tempt anyone to sin because He loves everyone, How would He tempt and destroy the persons He loves? He gave Jesus Christ for us that He might save us from sin, He's not willing that anyone should die but that all should come to repentance, it's a regrettable statement that anybody can make that God is tempting Him. God doesn't tempt to commit sin. It's not God that tempt us. Is not God that brought temptation to Eve, and He doesn't made Eve to tempt Adam, the purpose God created Eve is to sustain a man and to help him. God doesn't make anyone go astray and do evil. The same God that called us to walk in the right way can not tempt us. It's a regrettable statement to say God brings temptation, He calls us to holiness, and He can not contradict Himself and make our hearts hard towards Him. If temptations come, it comes from Satan, and if it ever comes to you, you will overcome IN Jesus' Name.
II. The revealed source of temptation to sin.
Luke 4:2-3,13; 1 Chronicles 21:1,7-8; Acts 5:3-4; I Corinthians 7:5
We need to know the personality that actually tempt people to sinning. God doesn't tempt Jesus. Temptation is from the devil, Christ came to recover the.... It's very clear that it's the devil that bring the temptation, and his goal is to make you sin, is to make you fall and he wants to gather all the souls with him in hell, you will not go with him. It's Satan that does evil, if there's anger from within you to go and do something wrong, whatever is it that something is rising up in your, that provocation is of the devil, you will not obey Satan. When there's a tendency to tell a lie, to deceive and to pretend, it's a temptation coming from the devil. Devil wants to destroy souls. That's the reason why he brings temptation to commit sin. The devil will make people think that they are lying to people, but they are lying unto God. We are being told clearly that Satan is the source of temptation to sin. The word of God tells us very clearly that we shouldn't defraud one another. Temptation is the work of Satan. He tempt you for you incontinence, Satan will not get us. May the Lord deliver us from the devil IN Jesus' Name. He will not get you.
III. The root and route from temptation to sinfulness.
James 1:14-15; Joshua 7:21; Isaiah 44:20; Hebrews 3:12-15
You can see something accidentally, but now, thinking about what you saw and ruminating and desiring what you saw, that's when the temptation begins. If you think about something you saw accidentally and you're thinking about that, that's when the temptation begins. If you yield to temptation, it makes you depart from the living God. Hold the beginning of your confidence steadfast to the end
POINT 2. THE RUINOUSNESS OF SUCCUMBING VOLUNTARILY TO TEMPTATION.
JAMES 1:14-16; EZEKIEL 18:30-32.
Nobody is forcing you to fall into temptation. You're the one to shut up what will make you fall into temptation. If Jesus comes and meets you in that defilement, you will miss heaven. If you look unto a man to lust after him, you've committed adultery. Shut your door against it. Getting to heaven is not a child play, you will overcome. If you succumb, it brings death. If you yield to temptation, it pushes you away from the Kingdom of God, and it pushes you to the direction of the other side you don't want to go.
I. Spiritual death of all living and succumbing under temptation.
John 1:15; Psalms 7:11,14; Isaiah 59:2-8; 1 Timothy 5:6,8,12,15
When you go in the direction of wickedness, God is angry at you. If you're succumbing to temptation, God is angry with you. Spiritually, death means you are totally separated from God because you succumbed to sin. There's salvation from the pleasure of sin. If you derive pleasure from the flesh, you're yielding to temptation that makes you dead spiritually and separated from God.
II. Sad death for the lifestyle of surrendering to temptation.
Acts 12:21-24; 5:1-5,9-10; Proverbs 10:27; Ecclesiastes 7:17; Hebrews 9:27.
If you do not say no to temptation, you will be separated from God, and that's a sad death, and you're going to face the Lord in eternity.
III. Second death after a lifetime of yielding to temptation.
James 1:15-16; I Chronicles 10:13-14; Revelation 21:8,27; 20:11-15.
Do you ever say no to that thing of the flesh that is weakening you? The people who don't know how to say no and they don't check their propensity to sucking in evil, there's going to be a second death for yielding to temptation. Many people have changed, there are things they will run away from many years ago but today they go along with those things and their lives are totally change like Saul, I pray God will preserve our lives, He will preserve consecration that we don't go back to the vomit we've given up before IN Jesus Name. All liars, professional lies, white lies, maybe lying in the family that the husband is lying to the wife because she has hypertension, that's not an excuse, if you want to get to heaven, tell the truth, those who trade in lying will not get to heaven. There are some people that doesn't want to lose their job, and because of that they, they will not tell a manager truth, they told a lie and they cover it with another lie, you might keep your job but the point is, you will not get to heaven. There are people that all they can do is going about and telling lies, and they are influencing another person to cover up the lie, but remember that you will not get to heaven. If you're a real child of God, you will confess your sins and whatever temptation comes, you will say no. Those who manufacture, create lies will not get to heaven and they will face the second death.
POINT 3. RESOURCES FOR SAINTS' VICTORY OVER TEMPTATION.
We are the Saints of God we are going to overcome. If you have been overcome before, victory has come for you. The strength and the ability we have so that we overcome temptations coming from any direction, we will have the victory.
I. God, our Protector and Preserver from temptation.
Genesis 20:3,6-7; I Samuel 25:26,39; John 17:11-15; Jude 1:24-25.
Abraham was now getting old, and Sarah the wife was also getting old, but she's still looking pretty, so Abraham told Sarah Genesis...........It was actually Abraham that planted that lie in Sarah. And so, God had promised that He's going to give the promised son to Abraham, and to Sarah, Abimelech took Sarah but he didn't slept with her, he has not touched her, he didn't had carnal knowledge but God came to him and said, by taking another man's wife, he's a dead man. God is serious about sin, and He doesn't measure or interpret sin like men interpret sin. He interpret sin from the motion coming from heaven. Sin is sin. There's no excuse before the Lord. If you die in that condition of sin, God said you will go to a lost eternity. If you're toxing with another man's wife, judgement is coming. If you're playing games with another woman's husband, judgement is coming. May the Lord preserve us from every form of sin.
II. Grace, our portion and power over temptation.
2 Corinthians 12:9-10; Hebrews 4:14-16; 2 Timothy 2:1-5; Hebrews 12:14-15.
The grace is so available, and God has so works it out that no matter the temptation, He will give us enough grace, we will overcome. The Lord is telling you tonight that His grace is sufficient for you. The power of Christ will rest upon you, the kind of power you have never known will come upon you IN Jesus Name, greater grace is coming into your life tonight IN Jesus Name. To overcome temptations, we need to look diligently, look at your mind diligently, examine the line we are following diligently, Esau didn't understand, he was not watching against the temptation that might come, he was not watching over his birthright and unfortunately he didn't have nobody watching over him, his mother was not watching him, all she was watching was his dream, and because of that his soul was left unprotected. Esau did not have a father and a mother to watch over him. His brother was watching how he could get his birthright away from him, and when the temptation came, he succumbed. In your life, watch over temptations, that's how you can overcome, allow your leaders to watch over you, and don't dogged when your pastor is trying to watch over you. You will not be lost IN Jesus' Name. Don't be like Esau, who had nobody watching over him. You will not die. If you're still part of the congregation, our pastors will keep on watching over you, and our leaders will not be so afraid and timid that they will not watch over the sheep, the members the Lord has given them. You will not sell your birthright.
III. Godliness through prayer and perseverance against temptation.
Matthew 26:41; Luke 21:34-36; I Peter 4:7,12-19; Ephesians 6:18.
God will preserve us from temptation. It's the prayer that preserves from temptation. You will pray so that all the root and the direction of temptation in the past, you will overcome. God will preserve you from temptation and plant goldliness in your heart, and henceforth, you will resist temptation.
