Fighting Temptation
Abounding in Obedience, in Joy
P2C Bible Study on temptations
Who is the one doing the tempting?
The flesh or satan?
• God created our bodies to seek pleasure. We pursue pleasure because our
spiritual and physical anatomy requires it.
• The fall of humanity lead to a distorted image of pleasure that is contrary to
God’s original plan.
• Lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil. Does God give us
temptations?
• Why does God allow us to go through temptation?
Some Bible verses
1) But each person is tempted when he is lured and enticed by his own desire.
Galatians 5:16
2) Submit yourselves therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you.
James 4:7
3) Your opponent, the devil, is prowling around like a roaring lion, looking for
someone to devour.
What is the purpose of temptation?
• Different types of temptation: Pleasurable and Miserable
• Break us
• Strengthen us
• Show us how desperately we need God
• Lead us to repentance
• Put us to the test (affirmation of our loyalty)
• Suffering like Christ (Hebrews 2:18)
What Strategies does Satan use?
How do we counter them?
• Makes you question your loyalty to God
• Perverts God’s Word
• Evaporates your faith
• Making you consider the pleasure of sin
• Presenting you with a partial, empty promise
Empty promise Contemplation
Sin Passion
What temptations do you go through?
What is God’s will for you in the
midst of temptation?
God’s will for you
A life of Purity - 1 Thessalonians 4
• Desperately slay the sin lurking in your life. ( Clothe yourself with the armour of God)
• Go from surviving to thriving
• Because you are a victor not a victim
• God won’t walk for you, but He will walk next to you
• 2 Chronicles 16:9
• John 17
Tensile Strength
God’s will for you is your purity - Design your strategy
• A way of escape
• Design your strategy of escape
How did Jesus counter?
When our Lord was tempted (Matthew 4)
And when he came to the place, he said to them, “Pray that you may not enter into
temptation.” Luke 22:40
Severing the root
ANTHEM
•A – Avoid as much as is possible and reasonable the sights and
situations that arouse unfitting desire.
•N – Say “No” to every thought within five seconds.
•T – Turn the mind forcefully toward Christ as a superior
satisfaction.
•H – Hold the promise and the pleasure of Christ firmly in your
mind until it pushes the other images out.
•E – Enjoy a superior satisfaction.
Steps to victory
Focusing on promises and walking in the Spirit
“Since we have these promises, beloved, let us cleanse ourselves from every defilement
of body and spirit, bringing holiness to completion in the fear of God.”
God’s reciprocating promises
- “Return to me and I will return to you, declares the LORD Almighty,”
- “Draw near to God and He will draw near to you”
- “If you seek him, he will be found by you”
- “And everyone who thus hopes in him purifies himself as he is pure”.
