Bob Lloyd - The Way of Life - Class 2 - Seek First the Kingdom of God

Now one of my favorite verses, and I have a bunch of them, but one of them is a verse that I've memorized and I commit it to you to commit to memory because it's a verse you can use when you're being tempted.

Jesus was tempted in the wilderness, as you know.

And each time he was tempted, he responded to the temptation by quoting a Bible verse.

He didn't have scrolls in his possession at the time.

He had them in his head.

And you and I need to get Bible verses that will help us in our head.

And please don't tell me you're too old to memorize a Bible verse.

I've had people say, well, I just can't memorize a Bible verse.

I said, what's your phone number? You know they know it.

What's your address? They know it.

I said, how come you know your phone number and your address? Well, that's important.

Well, yes, it is important.

But is there anything more important than knowing a Bible verse that can keep you from sinning? And so mine is, you want to look it up, you don't need to.

But it's 1 Corinthians 10, verse 13.

And I've changed the words a little bit.

Because the verse in the King James says, there is no temptation taken you, but such as is common to man.

But I've just changed it.

Because I'm talking to me.

So I say, there's no temptation taken me, but such as is common to man.

Which means that when I'm having a trial and temptation, I'm not the first one to go through this.

You've been through it.

Your grandparents have been through it.

Since Adam and Eve, there's no such thing really as new temptation.

There's new ways to sin.

But the temptations are old.