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听力课堂,开放式英语学习平台！www.TingC 学英语，练听力，上听力课堂。【免费英语听力下载】 - PAGE 1 - 标杆人生 第27天　战胜试探 Defeating Temptation Run from anything that gives you the evil thoughts ... but stay close to anything that makes you want to do right. 2 Timothy 2:22 (LB) Remember that the temptations that come into your life are no different from what others experience. And God is faithful. He will keep the temptation from becoming so strong that you cant stand up against it. When you are tempted, he will show you a way out so that you will not give in to it. 1 Corinthians 10:13 (NLT) There is always a way out. You may sometimes feel that a temptation is too overpowering for you to bear, but thats a lie from Satan. God has promised never to allow more on you than lie puts within you to handle it. He will not permit any temptation that you could not overcome. However, you must do your part too by practicing four biblical keys to defeating temptation. The battle for sin is won or lost in your mind. Whatever gets your attention will get you. Refocus your attention on something else. It may surprise you that nowhere in the Bible are we told to resist temptation. We are told to resist the devil, I but that is very different, as Ill explain later. Instead, we are advised to refocus our attention because resisting a thought doesnt work. It only intensifies our focus on the wrong thing and strengthens its allure. Let me explain: Every time you try to block a thought out of your mind, you drive it deeper into your memory. By resisting it, you actually reinforce it. This is especially true with temptation. You dont defeat temptation by fighting the feeling of it. The more you fight a feeling, the more it consumes and controls you. You strengthen it every time you think it. Since temptation always begins with a thought, the quickest way to neutralize its allure is to turn your attention to something else. Dont fight the thought, just change the channel of your mind and get interested in another idea. This is the