Hey guys, this is Johnny Artivantis and this is Dialin. In this episode, I sit down with Paul

Washer, the director of the Heart Crime Missionary Society and ask him the question, what would

be your biblical input on how we can fight sexual temptation? That seems to wage war against us.

Let's dial in.

Paul. Dial-in. Paul, thanks for being with us.

One of the most common questions I have with young men, students, anybody in general,

is on how they can fight sexual temptation.

What would be your biblical input on how we can fight temptation that seems to

wage war against us? Well, fighting is correct terminology, but we really need to understand it

biblically. Paul tells Timothy in 2nd Timothy to now flee youthful lust.

So I'm not going out looking for a fight.

Following what we see throughout the book of Proverbs,

I am going to fear sin.

In Genesis, sin is waiting at the door,

its desire is to have you.

I'm going to fear sin.

So the first thing I'm going to do is avoid those things that are most likely to trip me up, whether it be media or proximity to another person that may be, that may offer temptation. So you want to say, first of all, I don't trust myself, and so I'm not going to put myself in situations

that make me more vulnerable. So that's the first thing, flee youthful lust. The other thing

is something that it amazes me that people don't talk about this. You know, James Chapter

1 is the kind of the big book on temptation, or the big chapter on temptation.

But right after he talks about temptation, people think that automatically he changes to another

subject because he says every good thing given and every perfect gift is from above, coming

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