THE MAJOR SOURCE OF TEMPTATION DOES NOT ORIGINATE WITH SATAN

REVELATION;
SATAN DIRECTS HIS TEMPTATIONS ULIMATELY TO YOUR WILL.HIS OBJECTIVE IS TO CAUSE YOU TO YIELD YOUR WILL TO THINK,SPEAK OR ACT CONTARY TO GOD'S WILL.

The main source of temptation is not from an outside source.It is not an object,a person or thing.Eve's source of temptation was not the forbidden fruit.Bathsheba was not King David's source of temptation.Money,sex,drugs,alcohol,an individual or anything else is not the source of temptation for us today.

One of the reasons many Christians have been unable to overcome temptation is because they have not understood that the main source of temptation is not from without,but FROM WITHIN.As long as they are blaming an outside source,they are not going to the root cause where it must be dealt with.

The major source of our temptation does not originate from Satan.He brings things into our lives to tempt or entice us.He plants thoughts and stirs up the emotions.But the real source of temptation lies within man himself.

The Apostle James said;But every person is tempted when he is drawn away,enticed and baited by his own evil desire (lust,passions).
Then the evil desire when it has conceived gives birth to sin,and sin when it is fully matured brings forth death (James 1;13-15).

Eve's temptation was ot the forbidden fruit;it was the desire and intense longing within her to be as gods,knowing good and evil (Gen 3;5-6).
Satan used the forbidden fruit to entice and stir up this desire within her until she yielded her will and disobeyed God.The real source of temptation was within her.

King David's temptation was not Bathsheba;it was the evil desires and lust within his own heart and mind.He was tempted when he was drawn away and enticed by his own lust.What he saw with his eyes stirred up his desires and emotions.When he yielded to this evil desire,sin was conceived in his heart and mind.

Today Christians fall into temptation,it is not because Satan overpowers them.It is because they have allowed themselves to be lured and enticed by the lusts within their own hearts and minds.Jesus said,For out of the heart proceed evil thoughts,murders,adulteries,fornications,thefts,false witness,blasphemies (Matthew 15;19).When they fall into temptation,it is because they have yielded their wills and acted upon the desires and lusts within them.

God Bless.