I began in the last message, a series designed for help young and all the like, calling it you can win like Jesus.

In the last message, I told you that some people feel guilty when they are tempted.

You should not feel guilty when you are tempted.

Temptation is normal. You should expect temptation. If you're a believer in the Lord Jesus

Christ, you will be tempted. Not possibly, you will be. Don't be surprised by it. Prepare for it.

I also told you that the three-fold temptations of Jesus in the wilderness

summarize and codifies all other temptation known to mankind. All temptations that you and I

have succumbed to or defeated, they all codified in those three. First, Satan did not want Jesus to rely on his father's

power and on his father's provision. Instead, he wanted to go for the shortcut, to take a shortcut.

Please hear me out on this one. These three temptations can go under these three categories.

It's temptation to pleasure, to popularity, and to power.

Write them down.

These three are the root of all temptations that are known to you and me

and every person around the world.

Now, I can testify to you as the Lord my witness. Every defeat that I have ever experienced in my life, it was because I succumbed

to one of those three categories or subcategories. Let me act like the tempter. See if you recognize me. All right.

I know people say, I'll play the devil's advocate. I'm not going to play the devil's

advocate. I'm going to play the devil's role. Okay? You have needs, right? Right? You have

urges. You have desires. You have ambitions. Nothing wrong with that,

right? So far so good. Having needs are natural. We all have them. But then the tempter continues.

All of these needs must be satisfied by you.

Watch how the tempter works. Jesus is fully God, fully man. Being fully man, he was experiencing the hunger pain that you and I will never experience. I know I

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