👩‍🦯‍➡️LEAD US 🫲

 Temptation is the devil looking through the keyhole. Yielding is opening the door and inviting him in.

Billy Sunday

And lead us not into temptation

Remember

Sara, Abraham’s wife?

Remember God’s Promise?  

• Genesis 15:4 (KJV) And, behold, the word of the LORD came unto him, saying, This shall not be thine heir; but he that shall come forth out of thine own bowels shall be thine heir.

God promises Abraham a son. But the earthy time  clock is ticking. Abraham and Sara are not getting younger, matter a fact they are getting older. Maybe we missed what God said and really meant?

• Genesis 16:1 (KJV) Now Sarai Abram's wife bare him no children: and she had an handmaid, an Egyptian, whose name was Hagar.

Human policy will often suggest a course which seems right, but the end is death. 

God didn’t promise them children, He promised a son

They believed God; kinda. Let me explain, God took too long. So they let temptation grab hold of them.  

Who do you think led them into temptation? Who do you think leads us into temptation? 

The Temptation 

• Genesis 16:2 (KJV) And Sarai said unto Abram, Behold now, the LORD hath restrained me from bearing: I pray thee, go in unto my maid; it may be that I may obtain children by her. And Abram hearkened to the voice of Sarai.

 

Refresh

Genesis 17:1 (KJV) And when Abram was ninety years old and nine, the LORD appeared to Abram, and said unto him, I am the Almighty God; walk before me, and be thou perfect. Wow, do we believe that?

At least thirteen years had passed since the promise of Isaac. Years of sorrow and discipline, but God had not forgotten. Was Abraham and Sara’s sin of disobedience greater than the promise of God?

I’ve heard people say “God won’t save me.” “My sin is too great.” All I have to say to that is one word: BALONEY! Why? Because I have written proof that’s not so.

• 2 Peter 3:9 (KJV) The Lord is not slack concerning his promise, as some men count slackness; but is longsuffering to us-ward, not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance.

• Was the surrender of Abraham complete? 
• Was his obedience absolute? 
• Was his faith fixed steadfastly on the Promiser. 
• Can we identify? 

So what does God do? He refreshes His promise. What do Abraham and Sara do? They laugh. Many do that. They hide behind the walls of.

• I’m to old 👴
• My  health won’t me 🤮
• I’m divorced 🙅🏻‍♂️ 
• I don’t  know the language 🧔🏻‍♀️ 
• I can’t preach now it’s to late ⏰
• I’m really behind the 🎱 here

• Genesis 17:16 (KJV) And I will bless her, and give thee a son also of her: yea, I will bless her, and she shall be a mother of nations; kings of people shall be of her.
• Genesis 17:17 (KJV) Then Abraham fell upon his face, and laughed, and said in his heart, Shall a child be born unto him that is an hundred years old? and shall Sarah, that is ninety years old, bear? 

This is interesting to me, the very first time we read the word “laughed” is here, you know what Abraham 

laughed at? God’s Promise! The second time it was Sara and she too laughed at God’s Promise.  

Genesis 18:12 (KJV) Therefore Sarah laughed within herself, saying, After I am waxed old shall I have pleasure, my lord being old also?

We read of The impossible, how Abraham is too old? Sara says so am I “After I am waxed old shall I have pleasure”

They both laughed at the promise of God because nature/science says no. 

Does God lead His children into temptation? 

• James 1:13 (KJV) Let no man say when he is tempted, I am tempted of God: for God cannot be tempted with evil, neither tempteth he any man:

Where does this temptation come from? 

• James 1:14 (KJV) But every man is tempted, when he is drawn away of his own lust, and enticed.

Way before you do it you thought about doing it.  “But every man is tempted” Every person is tempted, except you, for you are in control, aren’t you? Look what happens next “drawn away” how is this possible? Is it your friends that lead you away? No, I don’t think that’s the case at all. Oh, I see it’s you “of his own lust” you like doing wrong, you like being rebellious. Let’s see if this is so.. 

• Genesis 3:1 (KJV) Now the serpent was more subtil than any beast of the field which the LORD God had made. And he said unto the woman, Yea, hath God said, Ye shall not eat of every tree of the garden?

We see the temper “the serpent”

We see the victim “the woman” 

We see the temptation “hath God said, ye shall not” don’t touch wet paint.  The temptation comes to the victim 1-beer won’t hurt, it’s not like you snore a line everyday, you aren’t  like those other people. Why, they become hogs and they ruin their lives. You have control, you are different. Because you like it, the desire or your LUST entices you.  Entice “excites the desire.” So you move into action.

“Lead us not into temptation” Help me Lord to stay clear of that which tempts me.