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Manage your temptation with scripture.

Philippians 4:13 "I can do all things through Christ which strengtheneth me."

1John 4:4 "Ye are of God, little children, and have overcome them: because greater is he that is in you, than he that is in the world."

1Corinthians 10:13 "There hath no temptation taken you but such as is common to man: but God is faithful, who will not suffer you to be tempted above that ye are able; but will with the temptation also make a way to escape, that ye may be able to bear it."

Recognize the 6 step to yielding and flee at the first step.

2Timothy 2:22 "Flee also youthful lusts: but follow righteousness, faith, charity, peace, with them that call on the Lord out of a pure heart."

6 Steps to Yielding as Illustrated by King Davids’ Fall

2Samuel 11:1-4 "And it came to pass, after the year was expired, at the time when kings go forth to battle, that David sent Joab, and his servants with him, and all Israel; and they destroyed the children of Ammon, and besieged Rabbah. But David tarried still at Jerusalem. And it came to pass in an eveningtide, that David arose from off his bed, and walked upon the roof of the king's house: and from the roof he saw a woman washing herself; and the woman was very beautiful to look upon.

And David sent and enquired after the woman. And one said, Is not this Bathsheba, the daughter of Eliam, the wife of Uriah the Hittite? And David sent messengers, and took her; and she came in unto him, and he lay with her; for she was purified from her uncleanness: and she returned unto her house."

1. Visual Attraction (Not a sin to be attracted, at this point it is easy to walk away.)
2. Visual Attention (Choose to turn away/flee at this point rather than begin to build a fantasy.)
3. Visual Pleasure (Eve looked and saw. Dwelling on the visual enticement.)
4. Sexual Pleasure (Passive)
5. Desire for Encounter (Mental Justification for Yielding.)
6. Acting Out the Desire (Active)

When you say "no" to temptation immediately substitute another action or thought that is Godly and morally upright.

Romans 13:12 "The night is far spent, the day is at hand: let us therefore cast off the works of darkness, and let us put on the armour of light."

List the negative results of yielding to temptation.

•  Guilt
•  Set-back of progress
•  No lasting satisfaction
•  Sinful
•  Destroys sense of self-worth and establishes a negative spiral that feeds itself.

The attraction to sin is a mirage displayed on our minds/emotions by Satan the deceiver.

James 1:13-15 "Let no man say when he is tempted, I am tempted of God: for God cannot be tempted with evil, neither tempteth he any man: But every man is tempted, when he is drawn away of his own lust, and enticed. Then when lust hath conceived, it bringeth forth sin: and sin, when it is finished, bringeth forth death."

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