TEMPTATION,
EXIT FROM

IN OUR church sanctuary, all along the back wall, there are exit signs. It means you can leave the sanctuary through those doors. But when you follow the exit signs and leave the sanctuary, you are still in the building. The exit sign does not take you outside of the building. There is another exit door on the other side of this exit door that takes you outside the building. So, if you’re trying to leave the building, the first exit sign is not sufficient for that. It takes you outside of this part of the building, but it doesn’t take you out of the whole building. There’s another exit sign for that.

This is the way exits work with temptations. We are told that with our temptations, we will have a way out, an exit that will help us to endure. Most people think that an exit means they are getting out of the temptation altogether. Most people think that the exit God provides will get them out of the problem. The exits usually provided lead us to another hallway with another exit sign that leads us to a hallway to endurance. Where does the exit sign take you? It doesn’t take you out, it takes you through.949

[Overcoming, Power of; Sin, Avoidance of]

1 Cor. 10:13; Gal. 5:22–23; James 4:7