Flawed Appetites And Fatal Attractions
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James 1:12-15, 17-19 (Program: 3413, Air date 08.25.2013)
- INTRODUCTION
- Victimology is what we practice in our society today, where nobody wants to take the blame or any personal responsibility.
- The “blame game” is as old as the Garden of Eden, when Adam and Eve denied personal responsibility for their actions.
- Genesis 3:8-13
- James 1:12-15
- In this life, you will be tempted.
- It is impossible to tempt God with evil.
- James 1:13
- God is completely whole.
- God is totally holy.
- God will never tempt you with evil.
- God will test you and prove you, but He will never induce you to do evil.
- God gives us tests to make us stand; Satan gives us temptations to make us stumble.
- THERE IS A COURTSHIP THAT LEADS TO A CONSENT (James 1:14)
- Sin is an inside job.
- Satan tempts us, to draw us away; but the sinner says “I do” to the enticement.
- We are drawn away according to our own lusts.
- Mark 7:21-23
- We are free to choose, but we are not free to choose the consequences of our choices.
- THERE IS A CONSENT THAT LEADS TO A CONCEPTION (James 1:15)
- There is an unholy union of inward lust and outward attraction which brings forth sin.
- THERE IS A CONCEPTION THAT LEADS TO A CONSUMMATION (James 1:15)
- The term “when it is finished” in this Scripture literally means when it is full grown.
- The consummation is death.
- Ezekiel 18:20
- Romans 6:23
- Some examples of the end result of sin:
- Alcohol
- Proverbs 23:31-32
- Immorality
- Proverbs 5:3-5
- Human pride
- Proverbs 14:12
- Proverbs 20:17
- Alcohol
- CONCLUSION
- James 1:18 there is the conception of the new birth.
- Through Jesus’ redemptive sacrifice for us on Calvary’s cross, we can live victoriously if we surrender our lives to His Lordship.
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