How to Win Over Persistent Temptations — Part 3
Pastor Rick's Daily Hope
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🗓️ 31 January 2024
⏱️ 24 minutes
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Summary
The Bible is worthless to you when it's sitting on a shelf at home. But with God's Word in your mind, it becomes a powerful weapon to fight every temptation Satan can throw at you. In this message, Pastor Rick explains why memorizing God's Word will help you overcome the persistent temptations in your life.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to Pastor Rick's Daily Hope, the audio broadcast ministry of Pastor Rick Warren. |
| 0:09.1 | Your mind is the greatest gift God has given you. That's why today we continue with a series |
| 0:15.0 | called Rethinking Your Life. In these lessons, Rick shares nine biblical pillars we need to reshape our minds so that we can |
| 0:24.2 | become more like Jesus Christ. Right now, here's Pastor Rick with the final part of a message called |
| 0:30.9 | How to Win Over Persistent Temptations. So the key to overcoming any temptation is not to resist it, but to just refocus. |
| 0:43.1 | Just turn your mind to something else. If I'm watching TV and something on TV is either making me |
| 0:49.4 | mad, sad, glad, sexually aroused or anything else, whatever it's doing, and I go, I don't want that, |
| 0:56.0 | I don't sit there and go, I don't want this, I don't want this, |
| 0:59.0 | I don't want this, I don't, whoa, I don't want this, |
| 1:01.0 | I don't want, whoa, I do not want this. |
| 1:05.0 | The whole time, what am I doing? |
| 1:08.0 | Focusing, it's real simple, turn the channel. |
| 1:14.5 | It wasn't that hard. |
| 1:16.4 | Don't resist temptation, refocus. |
| 1:20.0 | You cannot control the thoughts that come into your mind, |
| 1:23.3 | but you certainly can't control changing the channel. |
| 1:27.3 | You don't have, does that make sense? |
| 1:29.1 | You don't have to accept. |
| 1:30.3 | And turn in the channel is the refocus in your life. |
| 1:34.9 | So you change a channel. |
| 1:36.8 | What does change the channel? |
| 1:38.0 | The Bible word for that is called repent. |
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