Kerwin Baptist Church Daily Broadcast

Welcome to the Kerwin Baptist Church broadcast today.

Our desire is for the word of God spread throughout so that all may know Christ. Join us now for a portion of one of our services here at Kerwin Baptist Church located in Kernersville, North Carolina James chapter 1 working to continuing our series of facing your Giants and today we like to deal with the giant of temptation and of all the Giants this quite possibly might be the biggest. The giant of temptation. In fact, it's so big that I might obviously spend two weeks on this and are two separate things on temptation, but I might spend two weeks on this temptation is huge.

James chapter 1.

Look at verse two. If you will.

James says my brother and count it all joy when you fall into divers temptations or diverse temptations we obviously for those that are new. It doesn't mean that you can go scuba diving.

It simply means diverse means different kinds of temptation all right. Notice verse three knowing this, that the trying of your faith worketh patience. Verse 12 Blessed is the man that endure temptation that Warden door means to speak. Did you go through it without changing you.

We endure temptation for when he is tried, he shall receive the crown of life which the Lord hath promised to them that love him.

Let no man say when he is tempted I am tempted of God, for God cannot be tempted with evil, neither attempted see any man but every man is tempted when he is drawn away of his own lust, and enticed. Then when lust has conceived it. Bringing forth sin, and sin, when it is in his bringing forth death.

Before I pray, let me explain something very quickly. Many people will say I heard one and it was one-time say well I believe God's tempting me, listen to me. God does not tempt God tests he'll test you, but he doesn't tempt you, God does not use something bad intent you with it. That would be against his character.

If you're being tempted with something that's wrong that's of Satan but God does sometimes test us, whether we will do right in a certain situation, weather will make the right decisions. God never tempts the only test.

Let's pray father I pray as we deal with this giant today that our folks would see how big this giant really is Lord.

I just pray that you give victory to our people on this matter of temptation in your name we pray. Amen.

You know the word temptation brings different thoughts and pictures to each other. Some people maybe a hot fudge sundae is temptation to you for some maybe I don't know why you're laughing right now for some maybe it's a Krispy Kreme doughnut for some maybe us, say, a businessman, that's under pressure. Maybe a corner bar. This is temptation. Maybe for some here would be a fantasy of someone at work is your temptation. It could be someone I'm something I've haven't dealt with people did a lot of traveling and different things. Maybe it's a movie at a motel room. That's a temptation for some it could be but in a different addiction. Maybe an alcohol addiction. Maybe a nicotine addiction for some it. It could be even for some of our young people like teenagers maybe a girlfriend is a temptation or maybe the wrong type of crowd is a temptation for some it could be a magazine rack at a store.

For others it could be an Internet when you have availability to it. I don't know there's always different things that tempts different people but want to ask you a question here this morning. I shall like to answer it for you and it is this preacher while I keep trying.

Why keep trying to overcome what has defeated me so many times. Why keep trying while why should I even struggle with this anymore preacher I've gone to the altar and how many times I've told God I'm sorry I don't how many times I felt guilty. I felt rented I felt rotten. I continually do something that I feel bad about it. I know it's wrong, Isaac, God forgive me and within a matter sometimes hours I'm right back doing the same thing. Why should I even keep fighting that without a lot of people in an office. Why should I even try to give you some reason for actually getting the message today of why you want to keep trying.

Look at verse 12. If you will, is says blessed is the man that endure temptation for Winnie's tried, he shall receive the crown of life. Why should I keep trying. Preacher well I want to notice this number one defeating habit in your life will rob you of the confidence that you have in the power of God to give victory over sin. Look at me when you fighting a fight that you say well there's a sum it's common I can get victory over listen to me, that has robbed you of your confidence in Christ. We see Christ is able to give you victory please promise that we get access victory through him and God's word. But if we quit trying. It's all because of the power and the confidence that we have in him can I say this, that a simple habit will destroy your desire to share your faith, using the something has you and you can get victory over it. You feel guilty you feel rotten you feel you feel dirty and there's no desire now for you to go out and share the gospel with others and share Christ can do for them what in your heart you question what he can do for you.

Simple habit. If you if you quit trying and if you if you give up the fight and you sound is not going to try anymore.

It would literally rob you of any desire, you would have to share Christ with others and individually years ago had a particular habit in his life and it had a friend is in the hospital and he said I really I can go to witness Thomas of what he says because I have this habit in my life and that man knows I have this habit and I want to look like a hypocrite mean that that totally rob that individual of the opportunity to go share the gospel. Maybe when that person of the Lord because of a defeating habit in his life.

You know that overcoming an addiction or an aura habit that makes you want to share God with others to see if you if you don't fight the battle you give up. It's going to make you not want to share the gospel. But if you keep at it and God gives you victory that's going to make you desire to tell others how they some somebody that's in a lifestyle that's wrong the wicked, and they get saved and get right with God for men.

They can't wait to go tell others about what God's done you ever brother Joe tell the story for years about winning Mark Potts to the Lord and man Mark first thing it took for the Joe to a trailer had every pothead and drug it it anything I want to tell them they some is a desire when God gives you victory and you see that God forgives you of your sin that makes you want to go out until of that's why you keep trying. That's why you keep fighting going to say this, that not dealing with a habit will lead to a hardened heart. So I said I keep fighting temptation because if you don't, your heart is going to get hard PC right now you feel better right now you feel guilty and you say, but I keep trying to overcome and I asked God to forgive me but I just can't get victory over three different if you stop trying before long you not get a feel guilty anymore and you're not get a feel wrong anymore and now it's not even going to touch your heart.

You're not going to have any conscience about it in the Bible says our conscience can get it seared with a hot iron were not sensitive anymore to God. There's some people that have given up the fight that now they don't want to fight anymore.

Never will again because I don't even feel wrong for their sin anymore. I am Robin uses as an illustration, I went to Bible College we obscenely. I live in a dorm and went to you too conservative Christian colleges that that point in we were allowed to have TV in our dorms at all and the one college was really liberal.

It had a dating parlor with the TV unit that everybody can gather and watch like a ball game or something you know Jack and Tanner went to that liberal college with me. I made it had a TV actually in the college building for the other because they didn't have anything like that, you know I mean I read it once a year after church Sunday night. This college would pipe in cable and let you watch the football game on a Sunday night at that other cargoes, the only reason any kind of TV was laid in that campus well go three months not see anything on TV this you know you fat up found other stuff to do and when I would come home at Christmas time I watch TV MN.

I would sit or think. I cannot believe how filthy TV is gotten