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Look around. Unless you're in a sensory deprivation tank, temptation is around you right now.

Today, Pastor Greg Laurie helps us cope.

We need to flee temptation and not leave a forwarding address.

Every temptation is an opportunity to flee to God.

So when it's dangled in front of you and your temptations will come to every Christian.

Better to shun the faith and to struggle on the hook. Don't nibble at the faith.

Shun the faith.

This is the day when the lost are found.

This is the day of a moment again.

Amazing grace, God's sweetest stone. Again you can't hold me, I just wanna see you.

This is the day the day when life begins.

An old man who had been walking with the Lord for many years was asked by a newer Christian,

when will I get past temptation?

When will I finally reach the point when I'm no longer tempted?

The old man said, when you're dead.

Well, maybe we can shoot for being dead to sin.

That's our goal today on a new beginning.

As Pastor Greg Laurie brings us a look at the Bible's most famous strong man.

We'll see he was strong physically, but he became weak in the face of temptation.

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