Text: I John 2:15-17

Introduction

• Presenting the book "Breaking chains" by Neil T. Anderson. (Books with the most important ideas of this message)
• Ephesians 2:1-5. We are born physically alive, spiritually dead.
• Philippians 4:19 . We try to satisfy our needs with world's resources, of the flesh or of the devil.
• Temptation: "It is an invitation that I receive to sin" Application: What do I do with an invitation? Accept or reject.
• 3 ways in which Satan seduces us.

• What is the concupiscence of the flesh? Appetites, wishes, passions.
• Genesis 3:2 "do not eat"
• Matthew 4:4 - Jesus had the same test and over came it.

• Genesis 3:6 "And seeing the woman..."
• That in which pleases the eyes.
• Matthew 4:6 . This test, Jesus also won
• When do we fail this test? When we wish more than the world offers, more than a relationship with God.

• Genesis 3:5 "and you will be like God"
• Exalt yourself.
• Matthew 4:8-10 . Here, Jesus also won.
• All of the things that the first Adam failed to do, the second, Jesus, did.

Conclusion:

• Where is the escape of the temptation? In the place where it begins, in the mind. Let's read I Cor. 10:13
• Do not "ruminate" the temptation in your mind.
• Attention for the two cycles that occur during temptation.

• I John 2:1
• Not only God and this sinful world exist.
• Do not forget about the lawyer.
• Satan wants to do from good things, Sin (page 132) Physical rest- becomes laziness.
  Ability to gain money- becomes greedy
  Pleasure in eating- becomes gluttony.
  Communication- becomes gossip.
  Goodness- becomes super protection.
  Sexual Liberty- becomes immorality.
• We are not tempt in big things: stealing, killing, but in small things.

Final illustration:

Nail and stick: Tied together you cannot break the stick.