Today from Chuck's Windall.

Whether you even realize it or not, you are in bondage to your desires, to your impulses,

to your nature, which is sinful and alienated from God.

Someone needs to come and pay the ransom for your soul.

He stood that at the cross with his blood.

No one escapes the haunting lure of temptation, whether it's something like resisting a chocolate-covered cupcake,

or fighting the temptation to cross a moral boundary.

All of us are acquainted with this relentless condition.

Today, on Insight for Living, Chuck's Windall is teaching from the book of First Peter, Chapter 1.

In this study, we get acquainted with the insidious one who's often behind these mortal enticements,

and Peter offers the spiritual remedy to survival.

From the classic Hope Against Series, Chuck titled today's message, Hope Beyond Temptation.

The whole world lies in the lap of the evil one.

The whole world system, its frame of reference, its way of thinking, its drives, its goals,

sit in the lap of the wicked one.

It is the system that operates apart from, or at odds with, God,

that provides a background for Peter's remarks in the first chapter of his first letter,

which is a strong challenge to be different, to think different,

to resist being sucked in, or as he puts it to be holy.

Therefore, gird your minds for action, I'm reading First Peter 1.13, gird your minds for action,

keep sober in spirit.

Fix your hope completely on the grace to be brought to you at the revelation of Jesus Christ.

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