Temptation: A Chat With Bill Bedell About How It Points Us to Places of More Love and Healing
Description
This conversation with counselor Bill Bedell dogs into some of the subtle nuances of why and how temptation can wreak havoc with us. Often, we are fighting the battle with the wrong lens and goals in mind. Join us as we chat, and then check back next week for an exhortative word of hope with scriptural support of this conversation.
A little background — I spent a lot of my life actually practicing getting "SICKER" in my quest for self control. I was actually practicing something unattainable. I was trying to achieve my freedom from self-control rather than obedience. Obedience flows from love, and I had it backward. Simply put, God doesn't look at sin or temptation the same way we do. Jesus Christ won our full righteousness on the cross! It is truly for freedom that we have been set free. So then, why do so many Christians miserably suffer from familiar sin? Why do believers often look the same as the world when we look to mental distress and destructive isolating behaviors? The Bible tells us to walk by the Spirit so we don't carry out the desires of the flesh. The freedom in this comes through a far different way than the world preaches. JOY and LOVE and PEACE can be ours despite our humanity and sin. I believe it.
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