Nancy DeMoss-Walgamuth asks, who can you blame for your sin?

We can't blame God, who sometimes leads us into those situations that Satan uses to tempt us.

We can't blame God, and we can't blame Satan when we fail to respond in a godly way to the test.

So we end up in a testing situation. Satan uses it to tempt us, and then we fail to respond in a godly way to the test. So we end up in a testing situation.

Satan uses it to tempt us, and then we fall, and then who's responsible?

God for leading us into that situation?

Satan for tempting us?

No, we are responsible.

This is the Revive Our Hearts podcast for Wednesday, September 14th, 2016.

The Lord's Prayer brings questions to a lot of minds.

We're to pray, lead us not into temptation.

Does that mean God let you down when you're tempted?

Nancy explores this question as part of our current series, the Lord's Prayer.

I read about a little boy who was trying to save up all the money that he could in order to buy a baseball bat.

But he found it wasn't easy to be disciplined.

And one night when he was saying his prayers, his mother heard him say fervently,

Oh, Lord, please help me save my money for a baseball bat.

And God, don't let the ice cream man come down this street. He was saying, in essence, lead us not into temptation.

I want to do what's right, but it's hard. So God help me out. Well, we're talking about this matter of

temptation. Jesus taught us to pray, lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from the evil one.

And we saw in the last session that trials and temptation, whether the temptation to sin

or a trial that God is using to test us, but that can become an occasion to sin,

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