How to resist every temptation

If you want to resist every temptation, you need to know something and find something:


1.  Know the truth about every temptation.
2.  Find the escape from every temptation.


It is written,


No temptation has overtaken you except what is common to mankind. And God is faithful; he will not let you be tempted beyond what you can bear. But when you are tempted, he will also provide a way out so that you can endure it. 
1 Corinthians 10:13 NIV


NO TEMPTATION IS NEW
This is the truth about every temptation:

Every temptation is common to every human, every man and every woman. 

You will NEVER experience a NEW AND IMPROVED temptation. 

Never. 

Ever. 

Someone in the present, past, and future is experiencing, has experienced, or will experience the same kind of temptation you are experiencing.  It won't have a new power or technique.  It won't be unheard of and undefeated.  This is what you need to know:  There is no new temptation. 


NO TEMPTATION IS INESCAPABLE
You can resist it.  It has been resisted before, it is being resisted right now by someone in the world, and it will be resisted in the future....by you.  God, the almighty, all knowing, has made it so that EVERY temptation has a built in escape.  The skill you and I need to develop is seeing the temptation exit signs...the temptation fire escapes.  Every temptation has an exit sign written in red light letters.  Every temptation has a fire escape with a loud alarm. 


There is no new or inescapable temptation.



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