I heard about a young believer who went to an older believer and said,

how long will it be till I get to a place in my Christian life where I'm no longer tempted?

The old man said, when you're dead. Look, you're going to get tempted throughout your Christian

life. The battle's going to rage to the very last day of your life. And I think when we're dealing

with temptation, we need to be practical. Let's say that you have a weakness for drinking. You say,

I get tempted all the time. Even when I'm in my house, sitting in my wine cellar,

I'm tempted to drink. Oh, really? Well, if that's a weakness for you, why don't you get rid of it?

Pour the booze down the toilet. Make sure you flush her to the dog might drink it and get drunk.

We don't want that to happen. You know, if you have drugs, get rid of them. Can I sell them? No,

don't sell them. That's called drug dealing. Do whatever you need to do. I remember a while ago,

someone gave me a big giant container full of pretzels that had peanut butter in them. Have you

ever tried those? I'm not a huge peanut butter fan, but there's something about a pretzel with peanut

butter. I think it's a salty and the sweet together. So I ate one, then I ate two, then I ate five,

then I'm eating them by the handful. And I realized, I'm going to eat this entire giant jar of

peanut butter pretzels. And I have to get rid of them. I can't resist them. So I feel bad about

this because they were with something. I poured them down the toilet and flushed it. My wife came

into the kitchen. Hey, I want to have another one of those peanut butter pretzels. Wait, the container

is empty. What happened? I said, I flushed them down the toilet. She didn't believe me. She said,

you ate them all. No, actually, I didn't. But sometimes we have to take practical steps. Let's say

you have a struggle with porn. I look at porn on my phone. Well, put some kind of filter on your

phone or, hey, get a flip phone. I don't care. But get real. Get practical. And don't put yourself

in a place where you are unnecessarily tempted. Listen, with every temptation, there's a way out.

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