Getting The Victory Over Temptation Series

Getting The Victory Over Temptation

The King and His Kingdom

OKAY – I want to start off today by reading a passage from the book of Deuteronomy.

Anyone know...

• What the name means? Second law

• What section of the Bible it is found in? Pentateuch

(5 books)

In this book the new generation (those under the age of 18 who left Egypt) are reminded by Moses... and of how God had been with them during the 40 years of wilderness wandering and they are reminded of God’s law.

NOW – this book also serve as Moses farewell address to God’s people, as he will not be entering the promise land with them.

And because he is not going to be with them there are many things he wants them to be aware of.

When you go to war against your enemies and see horses and chariots and an army greater than yours, do not be afraid of them, because the Lord your God, who brought you up out of Egypt, will be with you.

When you are about to go into battle, the priest shall come forward and address the army. He shall say:

“Hear, Israel: Today you are going into battle against your enemies. Do not be fainthearted or afraid; do not panic or be terrified by them. For the Lord your God is the one who goes with you to fight for you against your enemies to give you victory.” - Deuteronomy 20:1-4

Prayer

OKAY – this morning we are going to conclude our deep dive into the greatest prayer ever prayed...

A prayer that Jesus-followers have been praying all around the globe for 2000 years.

A prayer when righty understood and daily prayed has the power to change hearts, homes, churches, communities, countries, the world.

AND MGCC – when I said that we were doing a deep dive into this prayer. I was not kidding. In fact today is our 12th week in this dive.

AND LISTEN – every conversation we have on Sunday is...

• available to watch on: Facebook and YouTube, and

• available to listen to on our: website, Spotify, Apple Podcast, and TuneIn.

AND MGCC – what we have learned in our deep dive is that...

Our

calls us into community, into relationship.

Understand, it is not just about ‘me and mine’ it is about us and our.’ It’s not just our personal relationship with Jesus it is also about our corporate relationship.

Father

invites us into intimacy with the Maker of Heaven and earth. Yes God is the Sovereign King of the universe who: breathes out stars, holds oceans in the palm of His hands and stretches out the heavens like a curtain...

BUT - He is also Father. (1 John 3:1)

Who art in the heavens

reminds us that Our Father is great, Our Father is near and that there is ‘always’ more going on than our eyes can see.

Hallowed be Your Name

calls us (me/you) to live lives that are different and distinct from the world around us... lives that passionately pursue a personal-practical-progressive holiness...

bringing honor and glory to God’s name by the way that we live out our lives.

Your kingdom come, Your will be done, on earth as it is in heaven...

reminds us that we are part of a kingdom, that we are a people, called and empowered to show this world a different and better way to live...

AS WE – help restore ‘garden image and intimacy’ throughout this broken world, one life at a time, Bringing...

• Hope to the hopeless, Freedom to the captive

• Food to the hungry, Drink to the thirsty

• Belonging to the lonely, Purpose to the drifting

• Salvation to the lost

Give us this day out daily bread

transforms us from:

• fear to confidence – grumbling to gratitude

• selfishness to selflessness – troubled to trusting

• greed to contentment – merely living to life...

Reminding us that our greatest need this day and every day is to depend on and connect with our Father who art in the heavens, and with Jesus the bread of life!

AND...

forgive us our debts,

as we also have forgiven our debtors.

Reminds us of the sheer power and beauty of God’s forgiveness of us and the absolute necessity that we do the same.

And lead us not into temptation but deliver us from evil.

Reminds us that we are in war and that we will daily have to fight the battle with temptation and doing evil things.

QUESTION

• Why, is life so hard, so difficult?

• Why, is it at times such a struggle?

• Why do our best efforts seem to never go unopposed.

BECAUSE – like the Israelites in Dt 20, who were trying to enter their land of promise, we have a powerful and unrelenting enemy who has declared war on us.