WEEK SEVEN How to avoid becoming involved in temptation

This week's assignment is short. However, if you follow it carefully, it could change your life by helping you defeat temptations and sins that may have plagued you for years.

Read Proverbs chapters 2-5 in their entirety, and write down in your own words what the writer is saying about how to avoid becoming "involved" in temptation.

1. Specific ways to pursue wisdom:


2. Specific warnings and consequences of neglecting wisdom:


3. Benefits of wisdom:

WEEK SIX - facing sexual temptation

[Write out your answers to the questions in the blog.]

Now that you know how to face temptation, let’s take up one that you probably have struggled with from time to time—sexual temptation. I don’t need to describe what it is; you know already. In addition to the matters you have already covered in the process sketched out above which, presumably, you have been following, apply the same procedures to this temptation as well.
a. Talk to God about the problem and repent of it.
b. Find a verse that opposes the problem.
c. Memorize the verse
d. Use the verse to oppose temptation.

Now, ask yourself :


1. How is the temptation of my heart the prelude to the temptation to follow through physically? Look at the Sermon on the Mount for Jesus’ comments about adultery in the heart (Matthew 5:27-30).




2. Am I avoiding all unnecessary situations, contacts, etc., in which I will be tempted to sexual sin, including pornography either in print or online? Be honest!

WEEK Five – I Am a Liar

All right! As you’ve been working through various passages on temptation, you’ve been thinking about your own life, I am sure. Great! And now, perhaps, you’ve come to an important conclusion; you’ve decided, “I am a liar!” That may not be exactly what you concluded, but let’s take it as an example.

You have thought about how often you are tempted to lie your way out of difficult circumstances. How often the lie comes to mind, even when you don’t use it. How, at times, even when there is no pressure to lie to get out of some scrape or another, you have been tempted to lie about ordinary things simply to exaggerate them, stress your capabilities or importance, and so forth. Lying is a definite temptation to be faced throughout your day.

OK. Let’s assume that you agree that it is. Now, what are you going to do to rectify this? First, you ought to talk to God about the problem. What will you say? Write it out: __________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

(I’m assuming you are printing out these pages to use and keep them).
Second, having repented, you will need to find at least one verse that opposes lying. If you’re having trouble with this, may I suggest that one such verse may be found in Ephesians 4. It (or another verse that you’d rather use) is____________________________. Now that you have your verse that opposes lying, the next step (that we suggested in the week 2 study) is:

Third, memorize the verse.

Good. Now what is the next step?

Use the verse to oppose temptation.

You have just been through a practical application of the process that you learned previously. Does it help you know what to do to counter temptation? If so, then I suggest the following:

1. Now determine what is the most serious temptation that you regularly must face. Don’t fudge here—be excruciatingly honest!

2. Good! Now go through the process that we have suggested.

WEEK FOUR - Concordance Study

Come prepared to discuss your concordance study.

To facilitate the discussion, just look for examples in James 1:2-15.

Refer back to the post on Week 3 for details.