Got the Power
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Title: Got the Power --------------------- Date: 10/7/1999
Keyword: "power" "success" "temptation"
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the face of sexual temptation.
Passage: Joshua
23:9-11*
9. The LORD has driven out before you great and powerful nations; to
this day no one has been able to withstand you.
10. One of you routs a thousand, because the LORD your God fights
for you, just as he promised.
11. So be very careful to love the LORD your God.
Question
1. How much power did God offer to the Israelites?
2. What should be our attitude about our ability to overcome
pornography?
Practical help
In his farewell address, Joshua didn't pull any punches. Thanks to
God, he said, you have the ability to beat a force a thousand times more powerful than
you. That's some chutzpa.
Contrast Joshua's confidence to our mealy-mouthed excuses about pornography. "I can't
resist it." "The urge is too strong for me." "I've given up fighting
the battle."
Nonsense. Though believers may fall in their struggles against temptation, Scripture gives
us no quarter concerning our God-given abilities. It says, in effect, line up a thousand
of the most alluring porn sites, and the faithful will overcome them.
So align your expectations of success with God's allotment of power. You may still fail,
but at least you won't kid yourself about why you failed.
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