1 Corinthians 10 and verse 13.

1 Corinthians 1013 says no temptation has taken you, but such as is common to man.

But God is faithful.

Everybody say that out loud.

God is faithful. And the specific area of faithfulness

that he's talking about pertains to temptation, being tempted. He's faithful in that he will not

suffer or allow you to be tempted above what you're able, what you're able to resist and not give in to.

Like we said last night, there are a number of people that have taken this verse and twisted it

and think it means, or even say that it means, God won't put more on you than you can stand.

And that's not what this said.

It's not even close to what this said.

I know a lot of people read it that way.

Some people misquote it that way.

But know who is doing the tempting?

It's not God. We saw last night in James, let no man say when he's tempted, I'm tempted of God.

Scripture said, don't let anybody say that.

Because God cannot be tempted with evil, and neither does he tempt any man or woman with evil.

So God's not doing the tempting.

Can we agree on that?

Well, if God's not going to allow you to be tempted, then he's not restricting himself.

He's not doing the tempting.

Who's doing the tempting?

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