TEMPTATION: The avenue to the Heart
Watch ye and pray, lest ye enter into temptation.
The spirit truly is ready, but the flesh is weak.
Mark 14:38
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3 Avenues of Temptation:
-1- Things of this world
-2- Lust of the flesh
-3- Pride
Case Study:
Genesis 3:6.....................................................................................1 John 2:16
And when the
woman saw that the tree was good for food,
For all that
is in the world,
and that it
was pleasant to the eyes,
the lust of
the flesh,
and a tree to
be desired to make one wise,
and the
pride of life,
she took of the fruit thereof, and did eat,
and gave also
unto her husband with her; and he did eat.
is not of the Father,
but is of
the world.
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.
1 Corinthians 10:13