In Touch, the Teaching Ministry of Dr. Charles Stanley.

Next on In Touch, how to deal with temptation wisely.

When you face temptation, what is your first response? Is it immediately to rationalize what you know you're about to do and that is you're

about to yield or is it to resist in the power of the Holy Spirit. When you think

about the things that tempt you, what is the strongest temptation you have on a daily basis?

That is, day after day, what is it that gives you the most problem with your temptation?

Would you say that you yield more often than you resist? What is it about that particular temptation that motivates you to want to give in no matter what the

word of God says about it?

I wonder if you've ever identified those

areas of your life in which you know that you are vulnerable, most vulnerable in those areas.

I wonder if you've ever thought about the times, the moments in your daily life when you're the most vulnerable.

And the truth is all of us have one or more weak areas we have to watch.

All of us have those moments when we are less strong than we are at other

times. How do you respond and I wonder if you ever even thought about the idea. And

then the question comes, what is your reaction? Is your first reaction to blame God,

someone else, your circumstance, who you are, your background, your past, is your reaction to blame or is it

that you're willing to assume responsibility realizing that nobody forced you, nobody made you yield the temptation, it was a choice that you made.

Well oftentimes we get in trouble because we don't know how to deal with things.

And one of the most important things we have to learn to deal with is,

temptation, but the simple reason, it's always going to be with us.

And so what I want to talk about is how to deal with temptation wisely.

Now listen carefully.

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