When Temptation Comes Knocking | Sunday Message

Greg Laurie: A New Beginning

Greg Laurie

Christianity, Religion & Spirituality

4.8 • 3.5K Ratings

🗓️ 11 January 2026

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Summary

We can expect to face temptation in the Christian life. But in this encouraging episode, Pastor Greg Laurie not only reminds us victory is possible—but shows us exactly how to obtain it. Today, we look to Jesus as our inspiration for overcoming temptation.

Notes

We belong to God

1 Cor 6:19–20 — “You are not your own, for you were bought with a price.”

Temptation/testing can produce good

James 1:12 — “God blesses those who patiently endure testing and temptation.”

When does temptation often come?

Frequently after great spiritual blessing (e.g., after Jesus’ baptism → wilderness temptation).

Where does temptation come from?

We play a key role in our own temptation. Where there is no desire on our part, there is no temptation.

James 1:14–15 (NKJV)

Temptation always starts in the realm of your mind.

Best place to be when temptation comes? In the will of God.
Primary weapon against temptation? The Word of God.

Jesus’ 3 Temptations -- Luke 4

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0:00.0	Hey there, thanks for listening to the Greg Lorry podcast, a ministry supported by Harvest Partners.
0:06.0	I'm Greg Lorry, encouraging you. If you want to find out more about Harvest Ministries and learn more about
0:11.3	how to become a Harvest partner, just go to Harvest.org. All right, we're going to be looking at
0:17.8	Luke chapter 4 and James 1. The new year is officially here. 2025 is in the rearview
0:26.4	mirror. It's history. And one of the things that people do at the beginning of year is they make
0:32.0	their resolutions. How many of you made New Year's resolutions? Raise your hand. Not many. Okay. Here's the problem with
0:41.3	and by the way, I'm one of you. I don't make New Year's resolutions. And you know why I don't make
0:46.4	them? Because I break them. What's the point of it? I read that 63% of those that make New Year's
0:52.2	resolutions already broke them in about two weeks. So really,
0:56.4	what's the point? But what do you think the number one New Year's resolution is? What would
1:02.8	your guest be? Is that personal? Do you need to lose weight? You're right. That's it. It's
1:09.2	losing weight. That's always the number one New Year's resolution.
1:14.3	So people are going on all these diets. And there's so many of these diets. I've tried a few of them.
1:19.9	Not all that successfully. There of course is sugar busters, Atkins, the zone, the South Beach
1:26.2	diet, the grapefruit diet, the fit for life diet, the Pritiken diet, the zone.
1:32.6	Then there's one, I've never tried this, I don't know anyone who has tried it, the cabbage soup diet.
1:38.9	I tried the cabbage patch doll diet, did you?
1:42.3	When you sit down with a doll and eat a burger? It didn't really, how many of you remember the cabbage patch doll diet. Did you? Well, you sit down with a doll and eat a burger. It didn't really,
1:46.0	how many of you remember the cabbage patch dolls? Well, Google it. It was a fad. Oh, there's a picture
1:52.0	of them. Yes, okay. It was a fad a long time ago. Then there's a dash diet. Of course,
1:57.2	intermittent fasting, the carnivore diet, the Mediterranean diet, I think maybe the most popular.
2:04.2	And they do work diets, but it's hard to stay on them. I mean, the very word says it all.
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