Responding biblically to Temptation on this edition of Truth and Love.

I'm Dale Johnson, and you're listening to Truth and Love, a podcast of the Association of Certified Biblical Counselors, where we seek to provide biblical solutions for the problems that people face.

Today on the podcast, I am delighted to welcome Lisa Schmidt. She is a homeschool mom of 19 years.

Prior to that, she served as a public school teacher. Now, interestingly, she is a member

at Bible Presbyterian in Grand

Island, New York. And she is a counselor there and serves as a lady Bible studies teacher.

She's also enrolled as a Masters of Christian Ministry student at Western Reformed Seminary.

And we're so glad that she's here today to talk on this particular

subject about temptation and how we think through temptation and how we respond to temptation.

So we have so many questions about temptation, especially for us as believers. We all deal with

these types of issues and temptations to sin. Paul tells us we still live in this body of death,

and we struggle with this in many ways. So Lisa, as we think through temptations, where do these

temptations even come from? Well, it's interesting because before we even answer that question,

I think what's foundational for all of us as believers

is to have a right understanding of who God is, knowing who he is according to who he says he is

and not who we think he is, is foundational to our growth in Christ. And we have to have an accurate

and biblical knowledge of him and his attributes, and that can only be obtained by

reading and studying and meditating upon the Word of God and hearing the proper preaching

of the Word of God.

And Psalm 119, verses 9 to 16, says, how can a young man cleanse his way by taking heed

according to your word with my whole heart

I have sought you which begs the question have I done that continuing on he says oh let me not wander

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