Click Bait: Stronger In Temptation (Week 3)

What does click bait do?

·      Over promises and under deliverers.

·      Keeps you on the line to exploit you for gain.

·      Keeps you on the line to harm you.

Click bait is deceptive, deterring and destructive and so is temptation.

A Graph of Grace Graphic

Sin

2 Samuel 11:1 In the spring, at the time when kings go off to war, David sent Joab out with the king’s men and the whole Israelite army. They destroyed the Ammonites and besieged Rabbah. But David remained in Jerusalem.

Big Idea #1

To raise your Defeating Temptation Efficiency… be where you are supposed to be when you are supposed to be there.

Sin

2 Samuel 11:2-5 One evening David got up from his bed and walked around on the roof of the palace. From the roof he saw a woman bathing. The woman was very beautiful, 3 and David sent someone to find out about her. The man said, “She is Bathsheba, the daughter of Eliam and the wife of Uriah the Hittite.” 4 Then David sent messengers to get her. She came to him, and he slept with her. (Now she was purifying herself from her monthly uncleanness.) Then she went back home. 5 The woman conceived and sent word to David, saying, “I am pregnant.”

Why is being exposed to click bait/temptation inevitable?

·      Because we are human

·      Because we live in a fallen world

·      Because we have an active enemy

Big Idea #2

To increase our DT efficiency… have someone in your life that can see everything and tell you no.

Consequences

2 Samuel 12:1-7a The Lord sent Nathan to David. When he came to him, he said, “There were two men in a certain town, one rich and the other poor. 2 The rich man had a very large number of sheep and cattle, 3 but the poor man had nothing except one little ewe lamb he had bought. He raised it, and it grew up with him and his children. It shared his food, drank from his cup and even slept in his arms. It was like a daughter to him. 4 “Now a traveler came to the rich man, but the rich man refrained from taking one of his own sheep or cattle to prepare a meal for the traveler who had come to him. Instead, he took the ewe lamb that belonged to the poor man and prepared it for the one who had come to him.” 5 David burned with anger against the man and said to Nathan, “As surely as the Lord lives, the man who did this must die! 6 He must pay for that lamb four times over, because he did such a thing and had no pity.” 7 Then Nathan said to David, “You are the man! 

I am amazed at my ability to justify my actions while condemning the duplicate actions others.

Consequences

2 Samuel 12:7b-9… This is what the Lord, the God of Israel, says: ‘I anointed you king over Israel, and I delivered you from the hand of Saul. 8 I gave your master’s house to you, and your master’s wives into your arms. I gave you all Israel and Judah. And if all this had been too little, I would have given you even more. 9 Why did you despise the word of the Lord by doing what is evil in his eyes? You struck down Uriah the Hittite with the sword and took his wife to be your own. You killed him with the sword of the Ammonites. 

Consequences

2 Samuel 12:10-12 10 Now, therefore, the sword will never depart from your house, because you despised me and took the wife of Uriah the Hittite to be your own.’ 11 “This is what the Lord says: ‘Out of your own household I am going to bring calamity on you. Before your very eyes I will take your wives and give them to one who is close to you, and he will sleep with your wives in broad daylight. 12 You did it in secret, but I will do this thing in broad daylight before all Israel.’”

The Difference Between Punishment and Consequence

·      A punishment is meant to harm as a way to avenge.

·      A consequence is a connected sequence, a chain reaction either of circumstance (a connected event) or discipline (a concentrated action).

The Click Bait of Success is a Slippery Slope

1.    I am where I am because of me.

2.    I have what I have just for me.

3.    I deserve more than what I have.

1 Chronicles 29:12 Wealth and honor come from you; you are the ruler of all things. In your hands are strength and power to exalt and give strength to all.

Repentance & Forgiveness

2 Samuel 12:13-14 13 Then David said to Nathan, “I have sinned against the Lord.” Nathan replied, “The Lord has taken away your sin. You are not going to die 14 But because by doing this you have shown utter contempt for the Lord, the son born to you will die.”

Big Idea #3

Genuine repentance is an unqualified ownership of the sin and an unequivocal turning to God.

Big Idea #4

Forgiveness means exponentially more than putting something behind you, it is putting restoration in front of you.

Recipient #1: Someone is in wrong place at the wrong time.

Response: Get off the roof and back to the war before you “see” something that can’t un-see.

Recipient #2: Someone needs to open up and let another person in with the permission to tell you no.

Response: Start looking and start asking.

Recipient #3: Someone this morning heard, “You da man/woman.” You have used your position to send and take not go and serve.

Response: Genuine Repentance.

Recipient #4: Someone needs receive the forgiveness provided by the grace of God.

Response: Stop mourning the past and start moving on the road of restoration in front of you.