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*😟"TEMPTATION AND SIN"😟*

(Rev. Augustus Nicodemus)

"JAMES 1:14-15 OFFERS AN IMPORTANT DISTINCTION BETWEEN *BEING TEMPTED AND FALLING INTO SIN*."

"THE TEXT TEACHES US THAT TEMPTATION, IN ITSELF, IS NOT SIN, BUT AN INVITATION TO SIN."

"THERE ARE, HOWEVER, DIFFERENT STAGES BETWEEN THE MOMENT OF TEMPTATION AND THE SINFUL ACT." (1st) "*FIRST*, JAMES DESCRIBES THAT EACH PERSON IS TEMPTED WHEN HE IS ATTRACTED AND SEDUCE BY HIS OWN DESIRES."

"*TEMPTATION* ARISE WHEN SOMETHING EXTERNAL OR INTERNAL AWAKENS DISORDERED DESIRES IN OUR HEARTS."

"THESE DESIRES CAN BE RELATED TO VARIOUS AREAS, SUCH AS PRIDE, COVETOUSNESS, GREED OR LUST."

"AT THIS STAGE, THERE HAS BEEN NO SIN YET, BUT TEMPTATION HAS ALREADY SETTLED."

(2°) "*-THE SECOND* STAGE OCCURS WHEN DESIRE GIVES IN TO THE CONCEPTION OF SIN:

*"THEN THIS DESIRE, HAVING CONCEIVED, GIVES BIRTH TO SIN*."

"HERE, THE HEART ALREADY BEGINS TO GIVE IN, ALLOWING THE DISORDERED DESIRE TO TAKE FORM, INFLUENCING THE MIND AND EMOTIONS."

"AT THIS MOMENT, THE TEMPTATION WAS NOT RESISTED, BUT FOODED."

"IT IS AT THIS POINT THAT THE TEMPTATION, UNFIGHTED, LEADS TO THE DECISION TO ACT IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE DESIRE."

"FINALLY, SIN IS CONSUMMATED WHEN THERE IS A PRACTICAL ACTION."

"THIS IT IS THE STAGE IN WHICH THE DESIRE IS CONFIRMED IN AN ATTITUDE, THOUGHT OR BEHAVIOR CONTRARY TO THE WILL OF GOD."

"JAMES SAYS THAT, *ONCE CONSUMMATED, IT GENERATES DEATH*."

"THE FINAL CONSEQUENCE OF SIN IS SPIRITUAL DEATH, WHICH, WITHOUT REPENTANCE AND THE GRACE OF GOD, SEPARATES THE HUMAN BEING FROM HIS CREATOR."

"THEREFORE, IT IS ESSENTIAL TO UNDERSTAND THAT BEING TEMPTED IS NOT THE SAME AS SINNING."

"TEMPTATION CAN BE RESISTED BY FAITH, PRAYER AND BY CONSTANTLY SEEKING HELP IN THE LORD."

"SIN, HOWEVER, IS BORN WHEN THE PERSON GIVES IN TO TEMPTATION AND ALLOWS THE UNBRIDLED DESIRE CONTROL YOUR ACTIONS."

"THE PATH TO VICTORY OVER TEMPTATION IS THROUGH CONSTANT VIGILANCE AND A CONTINUOUS SEARCH FOR HOLINESS, KNOWING THAT IN CHRIST WE HAVE THE STRENGTH TO RESIST SIN."

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