Hello and welcome to Pastor Rick's Daily Hope, the audio broadcast ministry of Pastor Rick Warren.

Your mind is the greatest gift God has given you. That's why today we continue with a series

called Rethinking Your Life. In these lessons, Rick shares nine biblical pillars we need to reshape our minds so that we can

become more like Jesus Christ. Right now, here's Pastor Rick with part one of a message called

How to Win Over Persistent Temptations. We're in this series where we're trying to look at key areas of our lives from a new

fresh perspective because we often get it wrong. Our perspective's often wrong and we want to get

it from God's perspective. The Bible calls this repentance. This is a series on repentance.

And I told you each time that the word repent, metanoia,

in the Greek literally means change your mind.

Meta noia, change your mind.

Anytime you change your mind,

anytime you rethink something

and you learn to see it from God's point of view,

that's repentance.

And so we're looking at all different areas of our lives. We're changing the way we thought about God and changing the way we think about ourselves and changing the way we think about life. And last week we talked, looked at changing the way we think about sin. And this weekend, I want us to look at changing the way we think about temptation.

Because we often get stuck in a cycle of good intentions, failure, and then guilt.

And then good intentions and failure and guilt.

Good intention and faith.

And God doesn't want you to live in that cycle.

And so we're going to look at how do you win over persistent temptation? And the way you win over

persistent temptation is not by resisting it, but by rethinking how you actually see temptation. This is

going to be a very practical message.

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