We're honored to be joined again by author and speaker Paul Trip on the Aspetra John podcast.

He is the author of the outstanding book, Sex and Money.

And in the book you say this, when it comes to sexual temptation, you say, run from the

pride that says you are stronger than you really are.

Wow, explain this pride that says we are stronger than we really are in the face of sexual

temptation.

Wow, wow, wow, I think this is so important.

I would say it this way.

Generally it's not my weakness that gets me in trouble.

It's my delusions of strength.

The Bible is all about the beauty of God's grace for the weak.

In fact you can argue that there is no such thing ever considered in scripture as human

autonomy and human self-sufficiency.

I'm neither independent nor self-sufficient.

So even in the prefall condition Adam and Eve were not so powerful as to not need

God.

They were created to be dependent on God.

Now we don't like dependency.

If you're a parent, those arguments your children have with you about what to eat and about

what to wear and about when to go to sleep are not about those issues, that child saying

you will not rule me.

I'm going to make my own decisions.

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