Welcome to Lesson Twenty-Four!
Before you stumble, after you fall
In today’s lesson we’re going to be looking at techniques for defending yourself against temptation, and how to rebuild your life after a fall.
Lesson links
Questions: Pages 253-254 (selected questions)
Answers to “Check your understanding” questions
Reading
In the reading today (pages 249-253), we look at how to defend yourself from temptation and how to rebuild your life after a fall.
All of us experience temptations. While it’s possible to minimize those temptations using the techniques you’ve already learned in this book, you won’t eliminate them altogether. Even Jesus experienced temptations. But we can be ready when those temptations arrive. The Bible promises that we will never be tempted beyond what we are able to endure, but God will provide a way out. (1 Corinthians 10:13) I believe that the techniques you are learning in Spiritual Self Defense could be part of that way out for you.
None of us want to fall, but many of us will. Even David, a man after God’s own heart, fell. I pray that you will not fall, but if you do, David’s story gives us hope. You can be restored. Yes, there will be consequences, and they will be painful. But your relationship with God can be restored, and your soul can be rebuilt—stronger than ever. We may fall, but we don’t stay there. Today’s reading discusses how to recover from such a failure.
Questions
Check your understanding
Here’s the question I recommend you work through: page 253, question 4. You can check your answer using the links supplied above.
Group discussion
I recommend you discuss questions 5, 6 on page 254 from the “Group discussion” either with others who are studying with you and/or with our Facebook group.
Journal
You may also want to check out Journal question 2 on page 254.
Congratulations! Lesson Twenty-Four complete!
You are almost finished! In our last lesson, Lesson Twenty-Five, we discuss defenses against suffering. You won’t want to miss it.
Look forward to seeing you next time!
Dwight
Reading and other links
Chapter 6
Sections 6.4-6.5
Reading: Pages 249-253
Questions: Pages 253-254 (selected questions)
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Links to other pages in the Spiritual Self Defense textbook
Glossary & index (pages 285-289) | Answers to “Check your understanding” questions (pages 278-284) | Table of contents (pages 3-9) | About the author (page 290) | Cover page (page 1) | Copyright page (page 2) | How this book came to be (page 11) | How to get the most from this book (page 12) | Other books to explore (page 10)
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