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I love that you've joined us for worship today at all of our churches.

We're in part two of a four-part message series dealing with temptation.

All of us are tempted in different ways and we're calling this message

series a way out. Next week, part three, I think is my favorite of all the weeks.

We're going to talk about the Holy Spirit's role to give you strength to find a way out.

And then in the fourth week, we're going to look at the reality that whatever you feed,

grows, whatever you starve, dies, how do we feed ourselves spiritually to have the strength to overcome temptation.

And what I'd love for you to do today at all of our churches if you would,

would you just prayerfully listen to this message through the lens of maybe your top one or two greatest temptations.

And this is really important. I want you to listen to and experience this teaching through the lens of a good struggle

for you. And so if you're comfortable in writing down what your greatest temptation is,

I'd love for you to do that. If it's like really nasty and hairy and you don't want the person next to you,

you're like, you know, you don't have to do it. But if you're comfortable,

write down what is your greatest temptation. I'll give you a few just to kind of get your mind rolling.

For example, some of you would say, honestly, you know, I'm really vulnerable to overeating or I have an addiction to sugar or whatever.

Some of you, it would be overspending. You know, you shouldn't buy anything else.

And yet when it's on sale, you like lose all power of resistance and you tell yourself you saved money and you tell your spouse

you saved money and you know you lost money, but you tell yourself that and you end up overspending and buying things you didn't really need with money.

You don't really have. For some of you, it might be a substance.

And this is incredibly common as we all know today that there's something in a bottle.

Or there's something that you smoke or there's there's something that you shoot, honestly, that just seems to have more power over you

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