Today, how to guard against the temptations of the world.

I wish you could somehow condense temptation into like an object, dissect it, and like understand it.

Because, man, it's such a reality.

I mean, when you think about the element of temptation,

to me... Elephant of temptation. It's a good way to put it, right? The big fat elephant of temptation.

It's a big, fat elephant of temptation. It's, uh, it, to me, it's as real as the law of gravity.

It's, it's just such a reality, you know, and as Christians, you know, it is the constant element

that we are battling against and fighting against.

But we're all in this together, and my hope from today's episode is really to dispense encouragement

to remind believers that you're not

alone and that we battle us together. So temptations. Oscar, I don't know, say something about that.

I love the way he put it. I think, you know, I was just talking to somebody at the conference that I was at,

and he came to me and he, with tears in his eyes, confessed sin that he's been struggling with and he was

like I'm so afraid to tell anybody about this and I don't know what to do and I he was like what can

I do to stop overcome this sin that I've been struggling struggling with since I was 13 14 years old

and I told him man that I said Satan wants you alone in this. He does not want you to share

this with your friends. He doesn't want your pastor to know. The Lord tells you that if you

confess your sins, you will be forgiven. That's not that he's holding back grace, but he's

holding back a healing bomb. Or I should, but he's holding back a healing bomb,

or I should say, you are holding back a healing bomb from yourself to invite others in.

And so you make a great point, which is to just simply recognize to be a Christian is to be

tempted by sin. Yeah. Those two things go hand in in. Jesus himself was tempted and of course did not sin.

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