Welcome to Gateway Church's podcast. Wherever you're tuning in from, we hope you're encouraged by today's message.

I feel like I can already see that some eyes are looking past me at just kind of the background.

There's a boat, there's a mannequin. So let me just go ahead and say, there is a fishing theme to this message.

And the title of the message is the Tackle of Temptation. And when I say the Tackle of Temptation,

I'm talking about like the Tackle, like the Tackle box of temptation. The Tackle that temptation uses.

But first, let me introduce my family, my most amazing family. It looks like my four-year-old daughter is

asleep, and my wife is holding her. This is Bridget. And then my son, the piece of God, just put her

right to sleep. Then my son, Parker, who will be nine next week, and actually my wife, I

next week, Mitchell, who is six. So that's my family, and we are excited to be here.

So I recognize that not everyone just has this love for fishing. But either way, I believe that

it's going to be fun, and there's a lot of scripture and a lot to that the Lord will fill us up with.

So with this, I see that there's this boat here and this mannequin. I want to go ahead and explain

that. So this mannequin is here to represent fishermen James. And I'd like the opportunity to

talk to you a little bit as fishermen James, and then Pastor James. And I'm going to share the

methods of temptation, and through that share how the principle of fishing, as well as the

principle spiritually that happens. And so this guy, of course, he's wearing all gateway attire,

and that's what I do when I go fishing, of course. In fact, I have a picture here. And so if you

look at this picture, this was about two weeks ago. It's my wife and I. But if you notice, we actually

are wearing a gateway shirt. I'm wearing a gateway shirt, Bridget's wearing a women's gateway shirt.

So I guess it just, it brings a blessing. I don't know. There's another picture here. Okay,

that's no gateway attire. I just wanted to show my big fish that I caught. So that's it.

But what I love to do is bass fishing. And so I was actually going to put a vest on this guy,

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