If you wanted to watch this episode early, exclusive content and more, check out our Patreon. Our Patreon is the best place for you guys to support us. Keep us producing the podcast, keep producing the evangelism videos, sending us out on the street, and in return. You get exclusive content that will only be available on Patreon, early access to all podcasts, evangelism videos, our inner circle group chat, and more. So if you want to support us, go to patreon.com slash Bryce Crawford today. Join the Patreon, support the mission, get early access to podcast, videos, exclusive content, and more. What's going on, guys? Welcome back to another episode of the Bryce Carver podcast. I'm Bryce and today, by the title of the episode, you can tell we are talking about overcoming temptation. How do we overcome temptation? This is something that we cannot avoid in this life.

And I made an episode on this back at the beginning in the earlier stages of the podcast,

and I wanted to remake it again. So if you have your Bibles, we're going to open up to Luke

chapter 17. But before we get into it, I want to preface this by something. Oftentimes people

think that when you have been tempted by something, that's when you have failed God. That could not be further from the truth. Temptation is completely separate than sin. And I'm not saying this in a sinlessness manner. You got to hear what I'm saying. Every time sin is talked about in the Bible, it is talked about as an if. If you sin, know that there is an advocate to the Father named Jesus Christ, who is praying on you behalf, who was the sacrifice for your sins. if you sin, know that there's an advocate to the Father named Jesus Christ who is praying on you behalf, who was the sacrifice for your sins. If you sin, that means it's up in the air. That means

it's a possibility. That means it's not a guarantee. You see what I'm saying? And through the strength

of the Spirit of God, we can overcome temptation. And that's what we're going to read here in Luke

chapter 17. It's a beautiful thing

you know God is faithful and just to forgive us of our sins if we have sinned and we need to

confess that's if we've sin and you know what the beautiful thing is and we're going to get into

it later I'll save it for later let's read Luke chapter 17 on what Jesus says about temptation

and he said to his disciples temptations to Luke chapter 17 on what Jesus says about temptation.

And he said to his disciples, temptations to sin are sure to come.

But woe to the one through who they come.

It would be better for him if a millstone were hung around his neck and were cast into the sea that he should cause one of these little ones to sin.

Let me just stop right there.

Jesus just said the wildest thing about sin.

He said, temptation is unavoidable, but woe to the one that tempts someone.

And then he says, if you tempt someone, if you're the reason that someone was tempted and falls in a sin it would be

better for you to tie weight around your neck and jump in the ocean and off yourself then it would

be to cause someone to sin that statement is mind-blowing to me and jesus is not telling people at

all whatsoever to off themselves.

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