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The most crucial part in our Christian walk is dealing with the aspect of sin, the temptation of it, the conception of it and the actual act, these things are always trying to eat at our salvation and at our walk with God trying to strip us of what was given to us as a gift and that is the promise of being with Jesus.

A man who wished to buy a handsome ring, went into a jeweler’s in Paris. The jeweler showed him very ancient ring, remarkably fine, and curious on this account, that on the inside of this ring were two lion claws. The buyer while looking at the others purchased this ring. But before he had scarcely reached home, he began to feel numbness arise his body, first hos hand, then his side, then his whole body was without feeling as it seemed like a stroke of palsy; and it grew worse and worse, till a physician, who came in haste, thought him to be dying. “You must of somehow taken poison”, exclaimed the physician. The sick man had protested that he had not. In time someone remembered this ring; and it was discovered to be what used to be called a death ring, at which was employed in those wicked Italian states three to four hundred years ago. If a man hated another he would present him with one of them. In the inside was a drop of deadly poison, and a very small hole, out of which would make its way through when the hand was violently squeezed. When the poor man was wearing it, the murderer would come and shake his hand violently, the lion’s claw would give his finger a little scratch and in a few hours the man would be dead. I want you to see why I told you this story, for four hundred years this ring had kept its poison, and at the end of that time, it was strong enough to kill the man who had unintentionally scratched his finger with the claw; for this man was only saved by the great skill of this physician and the work of this medicine. I thought this to be a very hard truth of sin. Beloved you may commit a sin now and for the present forget it; and perhaps ten or twelve years later the wound you gave yourself because of this sin begins to breakout and more dangerously than ever. And the greatest danger of all is the thought of sin and the committing of the sin should come upon us in the hour of death.

Death is the manifestation of sin, yet by the grace of God we have forgiveness of sin and life more abundantly. Beloved if we are ever to be in need of the steps of sin to have knowledge of how things occur I pray that God reveals it tonight. Yet in this there is a place of rest for God people, but in that rest it comes by Christ and Christ alone, stop living in unbelief and defeat, I hope this sermon will allow you to have the understanding that we are able in Christ Jesus to defeat the enemy.

1st point “Seven steps to sin”

Beloved this evening there are seven steps that lead toward actual sin. But before you can defeat sin, you need to know what is occurring in you.

Mark 7:20

20 And He said, "What comes out of a man that defiles a man. 21 "For from within, out of the heart of men, proceed evil thoughts

So with that we want to get to the steps of understanding of which can cause a man/woman to actual sin.

1. Temptation: Temptation comes in the form of thoughts without exception, it doesn’t matter what the sin is it begins a thinking process, in this process it can become so strong it feels as if it has already happened, many people sin simply because they had the thought, and they are condemned and in that condemnation they sin. Beloved temptation is not sin, people do not have to sin just because they feel like doing it. This is the power of sin beloved hear me out. There may be temptation or evil in another person that can readily hook up with the temptation or evil that lies in you and begin to work at one another and cause both to fall. This happens in a marriage at times when the husband and wife and even churches, the evil or temptation hook up with the temptation or evil in the other person. Then the two start working against each other and both fall because of anger and bitterness.

Beloved there is an incorrect teaching that says that when you are tempted it is God’s way of teaching you something.