Dear Friends of "Dial Daily Bread":
Our book for group Bible study asked a pointed question: “If you knew someone severely tempted to engage in illicit sex, what would you say to help that person?” Peter says we should “be ready always to give,.... a reason of the hope that is in you” (1 Peter
(1) “God [sent] His own Son in the LIKEness of sinful flesh, on accoout of sin: He condemned sin in the flesh, that the righteousness of the law [KJV] might be fulfilled in us” (Rom. 8:3, 4). That word “rightousness” is not the word that means Christ’s righteousness imputed legally, but it’s the imparted gift that has become your character. In other words, you connect with a Christ who is real—He took YOUR fallen, sinful flesh but conquered that same temptation in the very flesh that you have, where you are now.
(2) Christ “was in all points tempted LIKE as we are, yet without sin” (Heb.
(3) If you LET the Holy Spirit hold you, and don’t wriggle your hand away from Him, He will not let you fall into either fornication or adultery, no matter how alluring the temptation: Galatians 5:16, 17.
Read closely: “the things that you wish” (“the things that ye would,” KJV) are the bad things your sinful nature prompts you to do. Most people read that backwards, thinking you can’t do the good things you want to do even if the Holy Spirit is leading you—isn’t that horrible bad news? Read what it says: let the Holy Spirit hold you by the hand and you CAN’T give in to the “flesh” because the Holy Spirit is striving against it. Who is stronger? Your flesh or the Holy Spirit?
The Gospel is better good news than we have thought.
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