Everybody, welcome to Year Move. I'm Andy Stanley. Today we're talking about

temptation. Temptation is an invitation. We are quick to accept and then

usually regret. And then we turn right around and accept it. Again, what is up

with that? Let's talk about it today right here on your move.

Now today we're going to talk a little bit about temptation. And so as I was

thinking about temptation, I made this observation basically as it relates to me.

And I think this is probably true of you as well. That temptation for me,

temptation is always an invitation to embrace self-interest. Have you noticed

this to me? When I'm tempted to do something, it's always from my

perspective something that's going to be beneficial to me or I think will be

beneficial to me. But it's certainly all about me. I am never tempted to be

selfless, right? I'm never tempted to be overly generous. In fact, when I have an

inclination to be selfless, like I think I'll give up my Saturday and go help

them or give up half a day of work and help them or not do what I need to do in

order to help somebody else or ride a check to an organization that's in need.

Whenever I find an inclination to be selfless, I don't consider that a

temptation. Do you? You know what we consider that? We consider that. Am I a great

person or what? That's what we consider that, right? But it's kind of the same

thing. It's like I'm sort of tempted to do something selfless and then I'm

tempted to do something that's selfish. And again, maybe this is just

confession and maybe you can't relate to this. But I tend to be more successful

at overcoming temptations to selflessness than I am temptations to selfishness.

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