Temptation

By Mark St. John

The Enemy- Temptation
Have you ever heard the expression, “This means war?”
Temptation may not sound like a very worthy opponent, but if you dig a little deeper, you’ll soon realize that temptation is very real and extremely alive archenemy. As men and women of faith we must battle every single day this nemesis. In any battle, there are rules of engagement, strategic planning and the cost – These are fundamental elements as to the “Battle of our soul”– These rudiments all require equal consideration. Making the correct life choices around your battle plan will ensure minimal spiritual loss and nominal collateral damage of our faith walk. As in any war, one most consider the full consequences of one’s decisions. We must be strong and hold firm our defensive position, in opposition to the numerous methods of temptations! The intention and purpose of this book is to encourage, strengthen and fortify our choices with an understanding of the quantum physics of How Sin and temptation formulates with our being! “One bad decision can change the course of one’s life. However, one’s choice of faith in Jesus Christ can affect not only one’s lifetime, but changes the course of your eternal destination, forever!
Let us be overcomers, and Fight the good fight of Faith, in Christ Messiah!

• Language: English
• Publisher: Mark St. John
• Release date: Apr 11, 2020
• ISBN: 9780463370742

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TEMPTATION -X

MASTERING TEMPTATION

From the, Never give up, never surrender series -Vol. II

Mark St. John

Never give up, never surrender series, by Mark St. John Published by CS.

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Contents

Introduction

I. Hunger Games

a. Beauty and the Beast

b. How Sin Formulates

c. Broken Arrow –Tree of Knowledge

d. The World, The Flesh, The Devil

II. Samson and Delilah

a. The Trust Fund Baby

b. Fire Fox

c. Road Rage

d. Faith Factor

III. Samson Delilah Part II

a. Man, in the Mirror

b. Hero of Faith

c. Brave Heart – A Soldiers’ Final Prayer

IV. Anger Management

a. Raising Cain

b. How sin formulates –Birth of a Baby

c. Falling Angel

V. Hunger Games Part II Anger Management

a. Fast & Furious

b. Drama Zone - Just say yes!

c. WWE Smack Down

VI. Formula X -How I apply?

a. All in The Family

b. Business / Ministry

c. Friends and Enemies

d. Just say NO! Overcome Temptation

VI. Gotta have faith

Author and Ministry Information

Introduction

Do You Have a Battle Plan?

The enemy- Temptation

Have you ever heard the expression, This means war?

Temptation may not sound like a very worthy opponent, but if you dig a little deeper, you’ll soon realize that temptation is very real and extremely alive archenemy. As men and women of faith we must battle every single day this nemesis. Unfortunately, too many of us face each day with giant chinks, cracks in our body armor – or no body armor at all, making our lives open and potentially unguarded in complete chaos.

In any battle, there are rules of engagement, strategic planning and the cost – These are fundamental elements as to the Battle of our soul– These rudiments all require equal consideration. You can’t focus on one or the others may suffer. Making the correct life choices around your battle plan will ensure minimal spiritual loss and nominal collateral damage of our faith walk. As in any war, one most consider the full consequences of one’s decisions. We must be strong and hold firm our defensive position, in opposition to the numerous methods of temptations!

Temptation is an antagonist we must all battle until we are called home. It is a constant unwelcomed guest lurking everywhere, knocking on the front door of where you work and in the comfort of your home and at play. However, to prevail in this life long war and how to manage and overcome the ongoing temptations! Furthermore, achieve sustainable victory is explained, defined in God’s word. the Book of truth Daniel 10:21:10 As a compass, gives crystal clear directions to a Ship’s captain, during stormy seas, so too God’s word is our compass to navigate successfully the waters of sin and temptation!

The intention and purpose of this book is to encourage, strengthen and fortify our choices with an understanding of the quantum physics of How Sin and temptation formulates with our being! "One bad decision can change the course of one’s life. However, one’s choice of faith in Jesus Christ can affect not only one’s lifetime, but changes the course of your eternal destination, forever!

Let us be overcomers, and Fight the good fight of Faith, in Christ Messiah!

Chapter I

Hunger Games How Sin Formulates?

Before we plunge into discovering how sin formulates, let’s take a moment to review what we considered in book one. This review is foundational information, whereby to understand how we are going to master and rule over our archenemy, sin and temptation!

The challenge we face is many of us are not properly equipped to fight this war of conscious. A lack of knowledge in God’s word in addition to a shortage of authentic confidence of faith makes us susceptible to enemy attack. We must realize that sin and temptation bombard us with a constant incursion - spreading its roots in the battlefield of our mind. Why there in our mind? Because that is the location that our adversary tries to convince us that we are our own worst enemy. We must not adhere to this line of thought, it’s all a polluted lie or fake news!

From Battle for your Soul Volume I, Identity. Prepares us for a spiritual, bio-faith force Identification! Meaning, a concrete identification of our positional assurance in Christ within the fabric and fiber of our soul! So, what’s the purpose of this Identity? To reinforce your complete understanding, who you are in Christ!

It’s a I.D. of a comprehensive faith realization possessing absolute assurance that you have been vindicated, set free and abundantly pardoned in God’s Supreme Courtroom! At the precise moment of declaring faith in Messiah Christ! Affirming that you have everlasting, limitless life and possess a declaration of a "No Condemnation Status in the legislative court of God"!

That’s absolutely correct! Zero, zilch, nada. The enemy has nothing he can use against you! You are totally guiltless and blameless; you have no need to feel like you’re on the wrong side of the law any longer! You have no requirement to carry the burden of past regrets. Why not? Because of your faith, and complete trust in the finished work of Christ on the cross!

Accepting Christ as your Savior and trailblazer has given you the right to exercise your ‘faith force’, putting into effect your free will whereby, embracing with complete confidant and jam-packed assurance that you are endlessly forgiven! You have the full guarantee that you have been given the absolute certainty of everlasting salvation! No ifs, ands or buts! This is why I use the words faith force!

Ephesians Chapter 1: 13-14 tell us, "It’s in Christ that you, once you heard the truth and believed it (this Message of your salvation), found yourselves home free—signed, sealed, and delivered by the Holy Spirit. This pledge from God, His Spirit, is God’s guarantee that He will give us the inheritance He promised and that He has purchased us to be His own people. He did this so we would praise and glorify Him.…"

If the highest Supreme Court in the universe has declared you not guilty, you are totally set free from all guilt and shame, immediately and instantaneously! Like taking a shower in a tub filled with the water of forgiveness, categorically washing the dirt of peccadillo away, and that’s a Guarantee! Faith force, in Christ!

We are completely cleaned from dishonor – thoroughly permanently exonerated! There is no need to continue carrying your backpack of troubles. You have been filled with the freedom that God deposits within you via the Holy Spirit (the third person of the Godhead), guaranteeing your No Condemnation/Set Free Status! Therefore, identify and affirm, with faith and confidence, predicated on the Word of God - that you are totally set free indeed!

My Friends, you are not who you used to be. This new, no condemnation status is who you are now and forever, in Christ! God the Father, has forgiven your wrongdoing— in fact, He’s done more than just forgiven you. He tells us that He has cast our sins, "as far as the East is from the West." (Psalms 103:12) If that’s the truth, and the Bible conveys only truth, then you ought to forgive yourself. Renounce, reliving your turpitude in the cinema your mind, moreover, don’t look back in the rearview mirror of your history of wrongdoings nor at your former sinful actions with poor decisions. I encourage you, to put a stop to it at this very instant.

We must realize that it is the enemy who tries to keep us from living in the full throttle of our No Condemnation Status in Christ! The enemy, in conjunction with our own fleshly desires, endeavors to make us feel condemned. Whereby, we are obstructed in our rightful habitation to live out lovingkindness as our Lord. If the enemy or our own unconstructive thoughts can keep us focused on the web of our past, then it will keep us from walking in victory, in the present.

Why should we continue to allow past incorrect choices to control our present living conditions whereby, positionally and adversely affecting our future walk of faith? Let me affirm to the reader, that Jesus has taken full responsibility for all our past, present and future peccadillo choices! He has paid with His life the full price of our crimes (thought or deeds), all our wrongdoings, foolhardiness, and law-breaking lifestyle, as well as our sufferings through hardships, disease, sickness and ill health. This is why Jesus said, "It is finished," when He hung on Calvary’s cross. In other words, Jesus was saying that the debt for our good-for-nothing, depraved wicked ways has been utterly satisfied in the God’s Supreme Courtroom via His own Son’s death, burial and resurrection!

Let us consider the Greek word, ‘Sozo’.

This Greek word is found in the New Testament. It means ‘salvation’. Although we normally think of salvation as being salvation from our sins, this word goes far beyond that. Yes, we are saved from our sins; however, sozo also means that we are saved from anything that we need saving from. Do you need saving from sickness? Sozo! Do you need salvation from debt? Sozo! Do you need to be saved from yourself (and we all need this one)? Sozo! Do you need to be saved from depression and oppression? Sozo!

Embracing Christ’s forgiveness is like receiving your spiritual declaration of independence- your own personal 4th of July you might say. Once you embrace this reservoir of unmerited forgiveness, you are totally free from sin’s authority. However, please note; that sin will continue its current battle campaign to impede our faith walk. We shall, nonetheless battle with sin, with every breath we take, as long we exist in this present life.

However, let me make it crystal clear, that we, by executing our free will, can choose to be free from sin’s power and manage the same, accordingly! We no longer have to obey it; we no longer have to choose to submit to its rule in our lives; we no longer have to decide to let it triumph. We are also set free from sin’s final penalty (meaning, eternal separation from Jesus’s domicile), which was paid for on the Hill of Calvary. Someday in the future, when we live in sinless eternity, we will also be free from the presence of sin. (Rev: 21) One could say that the verdict or the declaration passed down from the Father reads:

• NO CONDEMNATION FROM FATHER GOD

• NO CONDEMNATION FROM MAN

• NO CONDEMNATION FROM SELF

• NO CONDEMNATION FROM SATAN

"Absolutely, positively, nothing shall be able to separate you from the love of God in Christ Jesus." (Rom. 8:39) Now, that’s a guarantee that we can bank on! As a matter fact, the Word of God says that your name is documented in God’s dossier folder, on file in the celestial hard drive, in the "Lamb’s Book of Life." (Rev. 20:15) What does that mean? It’s a concrete irreversible, unutterable fact, that God’s gift of faith gives us a heavenly comfort and firm assurance of what the Lord has done for us by transposing our name in the Book of life! Amen!

Truly and incredibly, you/we have entered into His eternal joyride of never-ending rest and repose in Him. In another words, the Father has placed all the responsibility of supervising mankind’s salvation on the shoulders of His Son, Jesus the Messiah! All who have completely parked- their faith and confidence in Jesus’ guardianship of this belief process, can be immensely grateful within the deepest depth of their being. Furthermore, we have an absolute certainty that we have been signed, sealed and delivered into the eternally comforting arms of the Messiah, Jesus our Lord!

For that reason, we have a promise that we can enter into eternal ‘Rest and Relaxation’ with our Lord. We can literally have a, Don’t worry, be happy attitude in the Lord Jesus! That’s part of the guarantee as well! Praise the Lord!

The purpose of the sequencing of Identity, and express intention in the content of Book I, is to strengthen and fortify the understanding of our identity DNA [Devine Nature Alliance) in Jesus Christ! Knowing who we actually are and realize the full "no condemnation status which we now possess, both in this current life and the eternal life to come! Therefore, Book I equip us for Book II, how to Circumnavigate Temptation in our lives!

Each volume builds upon the previous one, laying a relationship groundwork with biblical promises, tether with principles of "who we are in Jesus our Savior" whereby, elevating our understanding, of "How Sin Formulates!

Now that we briefly, reviewed Book I, let us return to our line of thought about "How Sin Formulates." We are grateful to learn by following Paul’s advice to the Colossians; keep our eyes focused on the [future]things above, rather than on the things of this earth. We need to perceive our target and the race set clearly before us. The objective of eternity in heaven, which implies new physical body, Peaceful administrations with mankind and Animals living in jubilant harmony with our Lord and Savior! Remember, who you are in Christ, Never giving up! Never surrendering! Be encouraged to run the marathon that is set before us, my friends!

The Beauty and the Beast-How Sin Begins

Let us commence our study. We will discover enlightening validity as we live out our faith in Christ (the beauty). By way of gaining a logical understanding how "sin (the beast)" originates within us. A basic principle of war is knowing the enemy; how the opposition operates, the tactics that they use and the weapons they have available.

Understanding this information facilitates a formulation and an effective strategy for managing the domains, realms and powers as noted in Ephesians 6:12. Plus the fallen nature within our physical broken being; as noted in Romans 7:18-25.

Without an effective satellite mapping of sin and temptations landscape, we will be ill-equipped, devoid of strategic planning for an unseen nemesis, that we don’t know, nor fully understand (other than some biblical data of the devil’s campaigns). Without an effective defense and "management sin protection system", well, as the old saying goes, "if you’re not planning for the