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Overcome overwhelming temptations
Lion Slayer

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The following is a preview of the book.

Endorsements

Dedication

Acknowledgements

Part One: Help! I Don’t Want to Be This Way!

1. Overwhelmed by Sin.

2. Overtaken by Satan.

Part Two: Help! I Can’t Stop!

3. Christ Makes Us Free.

4. Truth Makes Us Free.

5. I’m Still Not Free!

Part Three: Help! Show Me How To Be Free!

6. Finding the Right Truth.

7. Believing the Right Truth.

8. Praying the Right Truth.

9. Walking by the Spirit in the Right Truth.

10. Finding More and More Freedom.

Overwhelmed By Sin

“Therefore we also, since we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which so easily ensnares us, and let us run with endurance the race that is set before us.” Hebrews 12:1

“I am not moving from this house!” Sally screamed at her husband. Bill stopped sipping his hot coffee. Without a second thought, he flung the contents of the cup at Sally. She sidestepped just in time to remain dry. With Sally’s profanity piercing his ears, Bill slammed the kitchen door behind him as he rushed toward the garage.

For the next hour Bill fumed as he changed the worn brake shoes on his work van and piddled around the garage. Then he headed for the shower in the basement. Having showered, he headed up the stairway, the only exit from the basement. Swish, swish, swish. Bill darted backward to avoid the fishhooks, which narrowly missed his face. There at the top of the stairway stood Sally with daggers in her eyes and a fishing pole in her hands. She waved the pole and dangling hooks back and forth with fierceness. Still screaming profanities, she dared Bill to come up the stairs.

Sally and Bill are overwhelmed by the hurt and misery caused by the habits of sin. And they are not alone. Many of God’s people find themselves overwhelmed by destructive sinful habits, and cherish little hope for deliverance. For some, the struggle is with a contentious spirit. They are sarcastic, hostile and love to argue. They harbor hostility and resentment, and are blunt and impatient with other people. For others, the battle is with a stubborn, selfish, indifferent attitude toward those that differ with them. What about you? What area of your life is a continual failure to obey the Lord? Where has sin overwhelmed you? Is it mental adultery, envy, anxiety? Might it be slander, gossip, or deceit? Whatever spiritual cancer is eating away at your soul, it is important to recognize it for what it is, namely, sin.

What Is Sin?

Sin is an enemy, a powerful, sinister enemy that overwhelms us. Sin is despising God and despising God’s Word, and is at the root of all our destructive attitudes and behavior. King David’s adultery with Bathsheba and murder of Uriah her husband, as mentioned in 2 Samuel 12:1-13, emphasizes the horrific nature of sin.

“Then the LORD sent Nathan to David. And he came to him, and said to him: ‘There were two men in one city, one rich and the other poor. 2 The rich man had exceedingly many flocks and herds. 3 But the poor man had nothing, except one little ewe lamb which he had bought and nourished; and it grew up together with him and with his children. It ate of his own food and drank from his own cup and lay in his bosom; and it was like a daughter to him. 4 And a traveler came to the rich man, who refused to take from his own flock and from his own herd to prepare one for the wayfaring man who had come to him; but he took the poor man’s lamb and prepared it for the man who had come to him.’

5 So David’s anger was greatly aroused against the man, and he said to Nathan, ‘As the LORD lives, the man who has done this shall surely die! 6 And he shall restore fourfold for the lamb, because he did this thing and because he had no pity.’

7 Then Nathan said to David, ‘You are the man! Thus says the LORD God of Israel: ‘I anointed you king over Israel, and I delivered you from the hand of Saul. 8 I gave you your master’s house and your master’s wives into your keeping, and gave you the house of Israel and Judah. And if that had been too little, I also would have given you much more!’ 9 ‘Why have you despised the commandment of the LORD, to do evil in His sight? You have killed Uriah the Hittite with the sword; you have taken his wife to be your wife, and have killed him with the sword of the people of Ammon. 10 Now therefore, the sword shall never depart from your house, because you have despised Me, and have taken the wife of Uriah the Hittite to be your wife.’

11 Thus says the LORD: ‘Behold, I will raise up adversity against you from your own house; and I will take your wives before your eyes and give them to your neighbor, and he shall lie with your wives in the sight of this sun. 12 For you did it secretly, but I will do this thing before all Israel, before the sun.’

13 So David said to Nathan, ‘I have sinned against the LORD.’ And Nathan said to David, ‘The LORD also has put away your sin; you shall not die.”

Notice the bold, emphasized words: “despised the commandment of the LORD,” “despised Me,” “I have sinned against the LORD.” David acknowledges that sin is despising God and despising His Word.

Despising someone or something is an intense emotional rejection. Remember the suffering of the Lord Jesus at the hands of those who crucified Him? As Isaiah 53:3 prophesied, “He is despised and rejected by men.” Despising Jesus, they mocked Him, slammed a crown of thorns on His head, and spit on Him. Spitting on someone is an intense manifestation of despising and rejecting. When David despised the LORD and despised His Word, it was the same as spitting on the LORD and His Word. Every time we sin, we spiritually spit on the LORD and His Word. Sin is a sinister, despicable enemy.

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