Here's Nancy DeMoss Walgamuth.

Bobby Leach was a circus stuntman and a daredevil who lived in England in the early 1900s,

and he successfully survived many dangerous feats, including going over Niagara Falls in a barrel,

and survived that and all kinds of other daredevil feats. And then some years later, he was

walking down the street, slipped on an orange peel, was taken to the hospital with a badly

fractured leg. The leg became infected. He had to have it amputated. And two months later,

he died in the hospital.

After surviving all these other things he'd done throughout his career as a daredevil.

When I read that story, I thought, you know, that's a picture of life in some ways.

Sometimes you survive the big temptations, the things like Niagara Falls that you know are dangerous.

And then, in just a little careless moment, when we're not watching, we're not being careful,

a seemingly little thing can cause our downfall.

This is the Revive Our Hearts podcast for Thursday, September 15th, 2016.

As Nancy continues in the series, the Lord's Prayer, she'll show why we always need to be on guard.

Falling for temptation can be like a stuntman encountering an orange peel.

That's just a reminder that we never get to the place where we don't need God's protection from sin.

Never.

So hence the prayer Jesus taught us to pray, lead us not into

temptation, but deliver us from evil or deliver us from the evil one. Now by the way, which is it?

Evil or evil one? Well, the commentators basically don't know. And I think it's both.

It's anything that is evil, every kind of evil that's in view here, the evil within our own hearts, the evil in the world, and Satan who is the author of

evil. So we pray first that we will not be tempted, lead us not into temptation, then that if God does permit us to be tempted, we will be delivered

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