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A very, very, very pious man
was going downtown for a meeting.
He was late, and he circled the block ten times and could not
find a place to park, so he parked in a no-parking zone.
When he got out of his car, he wrote a note that said, "Dear
Officer, I circled this block ten times and found no place to
park, so I parked here to keep from being late from my meeting.
Forgive us our trespasses."
He got out of his meeting and went back to his car.
There was a ticket, a citation on it,
and the officer had written him a note.
It said, "Dear Sir, I have circled this block for
ten years, and if I do not give you a ticket, I'll lose my job.
Lead us not into temptation."
Audience Laughs!
We're coming to the end of our study in the Lord's Prayer
-two clauses and a benediction that really is a doxology.
First clause, "Lead us not into temptation".
Does that bother anybody that we have to pray that to our Father?
You mean to tell me that you and I have to pray to God,
"God, don't lead us into temptation!"
Is that something we have to pray?
Because if our Father who created you and created me is
leading you and leading me into temptation, I give up!
He knows every weakness in your life and my life.
And when you wait in that room to see a doctor for two hours
and forty-five minutes and you're an impatient person,
and when you get in, your blood pressure is 235 over 120?
Man!
Why did God put you in that situation as a patient?
That's the reason we're patients-knowing that you're
impatient, knowing how you would
respond with anger and with frustration?
Why did God put you in that situation?
And, we're just perusing the Internet, and whoop!
Went to a little porn site for a while, and, why did God let that
pop up there, knowing that I battle
the weaknesses of the flesh.
Why did that happen?
What's God doing?
And on and on we could go!
You see, God knows how you and I are wired.
He knows our Achilles heel.
He knows the weakness in every single one of us, and if we've
got to pray, "God, don't exploit that weakness!
Don't lead me into temptation..."
We're praying to the Father-what kind of prayer is this?
And you want Scriptural evidence
...you would say, "Wait a minute!
Jesus is teaching us to pray, 'Lead us not into temptation'
because He has in recent times been led into temptation."
Jesus was baptized, wonderful experience.
The Trinity was present.
"This is My beloved Son..."
and zip!
What happened in Matthew Chapter 4?
We're just in 6 with the Lord's Prayer.
Look at Matthew Chapter 4, Verse 1.
Then Jesus was led-"Lead us not into temptation..."
-by the Spirit-that's the Holy Spirit-into the
wilderness to be tempted by the Devil."
Here is the Holy Spirit leading Jesus of Nazareth, the Messiah,
the Son of God, into the wilderness to
be tempted by the Devil.
So Jesus had just gone through, we would say in a precursory
reading, this strong temptation,
and what a strong temptation it was.
By the way, Jesus was tempted here exactly
like you and I are tempted.
You know how temptation, all the little ones and big ones,
what the real purpose behind them?
It is the purpose of the evil one to get you and to me to miss
the central calling of our life.
That's what these temptation
about in the wilderness of Jesus.
You know, turn the stones to bread.
He'd been fasting for 40 days; He was hungry.
Somebody said, "Well, the Devil tempted
Him at His weakest moment."
That's incorrect.
He was a moment of strength.
He'd been fasting for 40 days.
He didn't fall for that temptation.
You see, what was the purpose of the life of Jesus?
To call all the world to God.
That was His calling, to call all the world to God.
And I'll tell you what the Devil was saying
-"Hey, you can feed everybody!"
That's a tremendous impulse to follow.
I could say, "Ladies and gentlemen, for the rest of
your life, I'm going to satisfy all your needs.
Come and follow me!"
Might it be a long line!
Right?
Strong way for Jesus to fulfill His life purpose-feed everybody!
Then Satan took Him on the top of the Temple and said,
"Jump off!
Man, God will protect You."
And Jesus saw through that.
By the way, He quoted Scripture to counteract every temptation.
"Hide Thy Word in your heart that
you might not sin against God..."
That's what Jesus did, the Word of God.
What was the temptation there?
Put on a show!
Man, you can get a lot of people to follow you for a long time
if you jump off Temples and you're not hurt,
but next we'd have to jump off Mt. Sinai!
You have to do a bigger, better show!
But you'd get a lot of people to follow you!
One way to fulfill His purpose...
Then Satan took Him on the top of a high mountain and said,
"Look at all the people, all the kings of the world.
I own all this.
I'll give it to you if you'll just bow down and worship."
That's the old question of means and ends.
Man, it's a tremendous end!
"Your goal is to change the world; get all the people to
know God and to follow You.
Therefore, I'll give it to you, but to get in that, for me to
give it to You, You have to worship me.
Do that which is wrong for a larger good..."
We get caught up in that.
Jesus said, "No, no, no!
No deal!
You can't tempt the Lord thy God."
Then when he was through with this temptation,
this is one little powerful Verse.
Look at Verse 11.
It said, "Then the Devil left Him and behold, angels came and
began to minister to Him."
He was exhausted at the end of temptation.
So therefore we pray, "Lead us not into temptation..."
and we say here in this Scripture, the Holy Spirit,
literally it says in the Greek, "drove Jesus into the wilderness
to be tempted by the Devil.
What is this all about?
Because somebody here might be wise enough to say,
"Isn't there a Verse or two there somewhere that
says something about this very thing?"
And you might be able to turn to the Book of James and read
there in the first Chapter these Verses.
Listen!
Verse 13: "Let no one say when he is tempted..."
There's our word.
"I am being tempted by God,
for God cannot be tempted by evil..."
and look at this!
"and He, God Himself, does not tempt anyone."
Whoo!
"But each one is tempted when
he's carried away and enticed by his own lust.
Then when lust has conceived, it gives birth to sin.
When sin is accomplished brings forth death.
Be not deceived."
Wait a minute!
We've got a little conflict here, don't we?
Sounds like it.
What's the answer?
I think it's found in the word for temptation.
The Greek word for temptation can mean to tempt, which means
to entice to evil, to do wrong; or it can mean to test.
Ah, now, it begins to make sense.
So God allows us to be tested to make us stronger,
but not, He does not tempt us.
That is the work of Satan, or the Devil.
By the way, in the Bible,
you have two primary words for the Devil.
You have "Satan" and the word "Devil".
Satan is someone who assails you.
It is the prosecutor who always takes all of
your garbage, and all of my garbage and takes it before
God and before other people.
That's the work of the Devil, and Satan is the slanderer.
By the way, you can slander somebody not just lying about
them, but you can tell the Truth about them
in order to hurt them.
That also is slander.
So we have Satan, and we have the Devil,
and they are there so, lead us not into temptation.
He's saying lead us not into testing that we can't stand up
under, and we are all tested.
"Well, how are we tested?"
The Bible tells us the world
-that'll test you, won't it?
The flesh, the flesh is always with us, and the Devil.
The lust of the eye, the lust of the flesh,
the pride of life always before us.
Life tests us.
Look at it.
I want to see how it works.
Still stay in our little Book of James, still the 1st Chapter.
Look at Verse 2: "Consider it all joy, my brethren,
Christians, when you encounter various trials..."
See?
Tests.
"...knowing that the testing of your faith produces endurance,
strength, and let endurance have its perfect result so that you
may be perfect and complete, lacking in nothing."
We are tested in life so that we will grow stronger,
better equipped.
And tests come in so many ...in various trials.
The word "various" there means we may have tests, moral tests,
health tests, family tests, business tests.
We're going through a testing time, all of us in different
ways and different degrees.
Sometimes they are hot tests-"Man, this is big..."
Sometimes they are sort of a moderate test.
Sometimes they are sort of an easy test,
but we're all being tested.
Why?
So we'll grow stronger!
That's why we take a test.
We go and we take the test and we pass the test, or we fail the
test, and I'm thankful that God retests us!
Aren't you?
For retesting?
Didn't have that when I was in school.
They do that now.
Some professors-"Well, you missed it-go take it again!"
Boy, if they'd had that, no telling what we would have done.
So testing and temptation, you know, they work together.
And so Jesus was praying, "Lead us not into temptation",
into tests that we cannot mature and grow up with.
Don't give us tests more than we can handle.
That's what He's praying.
Then He says the second clause, "Deliver us from evil..."
I'm thankful that we worship a God who delivers us.
Aren't you?
We are delivered from evil.
And by the way, you say,
"Well, I just, I just couldn't help it."
We've got a problem with that.
I want you to look with me quickly here,
in the Book of Corinthians, Chapter 10.
We need this Verse.
Verse 13: "No temptation (no testing) has overtaken
you but such as is common to man, and God is faithful who
will not allow you to be tempted (that's to do evil)
beyond what you are able; but with the temptation will provide
the way of escape also so that you may be able to endure it."
What is this saying?
It is saying that I can't say, "Lord, I was just overwhelmed.
I couldn't help it.
I just fell..."
Oh no!
He's saying as a Christ follower, no temptation
(enticement to evil) will ever come your way or my way, He
hasn't given us the capacity to turn away from and to resist.
So it comes right back on you and me.
It's a matter of the flesh, and the will, and the will and the
flesh, and the flesh is ever among us!
We're not above anything, any of us!
So we pray, "Lead us not into temptation, but deliver us
-be our deliverer, deliver us from evil..."
But what if evil already has you?
You say, you know, I want to be delivered,
but I'm already in the middle of evil and I know it.
How do I get out of the trap?
I've already made the wrong choice.
What do I do?
What is the way?
What is the way we move out of this trap?
What are the steps we have to take?
That's what we want to know!
First of all, we have to be willing.
Lot of us say, "Boy, I'd sure like to stop that.
I'd sure like to quit that.
I'd sure like to start this..."
We have to be willing.
Are we really willing?
Remember the man who was by the Pool of Bethesda?
He'd been there all those years, and, and he said every time the
water puffs up so I can be healed, I don't have anybody to
take me, and I've been here all these years..."
And Jesus, first thing He asked Him
-"Do you really want to be healed?"
That's what He asks us, "Do you really want to get out of the
trap of evil that you're in, whatever the form it may be?
That's the first thing you have to say-"Yes, I'm willing."
Then you have to name the trap, the evil that you're in.
Name it!
It may not be what you think.
Name what it is.
Then you have to say it.
James 5-"Confess our sins to God
and confess our sins to one another."
See?
That brings in another God-fearing person
to help you with this.
And then you-what do you do?
You trade it off.
You trade it off!
Here I am, caught in an evil, and you know, and I, I want to
get out and I name what it is, and I confess it to God,
and I confess it to someone else,
but now I have to trade it for something else.
There has to be something higher, and above, and sweeter,
and more appealing than that evil that has caught us.
I was thumbing through, punching the little T.V. changer.
I surf television.
Jo Beth endures it -all men do that.
It's something built-I don't know what's wrong with us,
guys-we just...
So in surfing, oh, a couple of nights ago,
I bumped into American Idol.
You know, I've only seen it a couple of times.
I just stopped for a minute, and they had a guy there who was
singing heavy metal stuff -heavy metal!
I mean, wheww!
He had a world-famous guitarist there.
He had it turned up-how loud can it get?
I mean whooooom!
And this guy was just shouting-"AAAAaaaaaaaaaaaaa" And
you look at him closely, he had a lot of heavy metal in himself!
I mean, "AAAaaaaaaaa" and the crowd was up, and they were
shouting, and they were off the top!
The judges were standing-"AAaaaaaaa!"
Boy, I sat there and watched that-I said,
"My...I must be missing something!
I don't...
Maybe it's a..."
And he "AAAAaaaaaa!"
And I thought, "What in the world could follow that?
What would get above that?"
And I thought, I said, "You know what would just take the
heavy metal and all this stuff and put
'em out in the bleachers and throw 'em out?
Would be little Shirley Temple coming in and singing,
"Somewhere Over the Rainbow".
♪"Somewhere over the rainbow..."♪
See, a higher something!
We get trapped in whatever's got us, and we have to have a higher
melody, a higher music to get us out of the trap.
So really this prayer is a prayer for protection,
and how we need protection, all of us.
And how many times you and I are protected!
Only when we get to Heaven will we know how many times the
guardian angel that is over every Christian's life has
called and said, "Send down a troop!
We've got to get her out of this!
We've got to bail him out of this!"
How many times we have been protected
by angels we didn't even know it!
So it's a prayer-"Lord, lead us not into testing we can't
handle, but deliver us from evil with a higher call."
It's a prayer for protection.
Protect us.
Protect us...
And then there is that benediction which is a
doxology-"For Thine is the Kingdom..."
By the way, the word F.O.R.
may be the most important word in the prayer.
How can that be?
It says, "For Thine is the Kingdom;
for Thine is the glory and the power forever!"
So we got two doors here, two doors that we enter
at the end of this prayer.
It's "Mine is the Kingdom" or "Thine is the Kingdom".
And this is a moment of decision as we prayed through this
prayer, we have to decide it's "My Kingdom" or "His Kingdom".
Thine or mine.
Let me show you something, and let me ask you a question:
Can you say today, the little kingdom of my life,
whatever size it might be, is Thy Kingdom?
Really?
Have you and I relinquished control of our little kingdoms?
Is my kingdom really totally His Kingdom?
Huh?
Which door?
And what about whatever power you have in your life,
or power I have in my life -is it my power still?
Or is it His power?
Thine, or mine?
Hhm?
Is all of your life and my life, really, whatever area it is,
is all about His Kingdom, how He would have us to operate,
and live, and to move, and to, and to use everything we have?
Is it really His Kingdom, or do I still claim it as my kingdom?
And what about any power of influence we have with anybody,
anywhere, any place?
Is it really, "I still have that power" or have I relinquished
all that power and say, "It's Thine."
What about the glory that comes?
You know, good job!
Well done!
What about that glory?
What about any applause or any words of appreciation?
Have we all relinquished that and said, "No, it's His Kingdom,
and it's His power, and it's His glory forever!"
Which door have we...?
"For Thine is the Kingdom..."
Can we really say that?
"For Thine is the power..."
We give it all to Him.
Can we really pray that?
Thine is the glory forever!
Is that real to you and me?
You say, "Well, how can this happen?
I mean, I'm human!
I've got a life!
I've got desires!
I've got things to do in my kingdom, and I want a little
glory, and I want to use it..."
How does it happen that truly, the whole kingdom is His?
And the whole power around us is His, and the whole glory
-how does that happen?
Let me tell you how it happens.
Remember when Jesus said if any person would follow me,
what do you have to do?
Take up your cross every day and follow me.
What does it mean?
We've heard that Verse, a lot of us, been churchanity folks for
so long-what does that mean?
To take up your cross?
Listen-you see anybody taking up a cross, anybody on a cross,
you can be sure of two things: They are dying,
or they're already dead and nobody's cut 'em down, right?
If you're on a cross, you're dying; or you've already died
and just nobody's taken you down yet!
This is what Paul was saying.
He said, "I was crucified with Christ;
nevertheless I live, yet not I.
I'm not really living.
It's Christ who lives in me."
Paul was saying, "It is His Kingdom.
It is His power, and His glory.
I have crucified myself.
It all is His!
That's how we can pray this doxology, this benediction,
is to be crucified every day.
Let me tell you something, and I'm a long way from it, but
I'm moving in this direction: If you and I crucify our
lives every day, part of our lives every day;
if we die to ourself every day, guess what?
On the day that you and I die, we won't have anything to do!
Did you get that?
If you and I crucify this ego, this megalomaniac that's in all
of us in different ways, and we truly go in the door that says,
"Thine is the Kingdom" and "Thine is the power" and
"Thine is the glory" and we die to self every day;
on the day that we die, we don't have anything else to do!
Ladies and gentlemen!
If we can genuinely pray this prayer,
we've got a life worth living!
We've got a life that is full of meaning and relevance, and
freedom, and liberty, and joy because old number one is
constantly dying, and we're letting the Lord Jesus Christ
be Number One in every realm of our lives!
For me to live is Christ, and to die is gain, and if we just
crucify old self every day, man, we'll be able to pray,
"Thine is the Kingdom.
Thine is the power.
Thine is the glory forever."
And when we can pray like that, you and I will have a life
that's really worth living.
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