In most small engines that are made today they have what is known as a low oil sensor, and what it does is if the oil level in the engine becomes too low it will shut down to prevent the engine from destroying itself.
Just as that sensor serves as an escape for the motor from total ruin, we have an escape from the sin and temptations that we encounter in our lives.
“1 Corinthians 10:13 There hath no temptation taken you but such as is common to man: but God is faithful, who will not suffer you to be tempted above that ye are able; but will with the temptation also make a way to escape, that ye may be able to bear it.”
God knows how far we are able to be pushed in our faith, and how strong we are, and He will not allow us to be tempted in a way that we are not able to overcome.
When the devil tempted Job, God didn’t allow the devil to tempt him farther than he was able to handle. Throughout all of the trials and temptations that he went through, from the death of his sons, and the destruction of his animals, Job never let those temptations cause him to sin against God. He remained steadfast and strong as he pushed through those temptations.
You don’t make a house without some kind of entry or exit. There is always a way out, just as there is a way out of temptations.
2 Peter 2:9 “The Lord knoweth how to deliver the godly out of temptations, and to reserve the unjust unto the day of judgment to be punished:”
When we pray the Lord’s prayer, Jesus instructed us to pray “lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil.” The devil appears in many forms out in the world today, trying to get people to be deceived and turn against God, tempting people when and where they are weakest, but through the help that we have in the Lord, we will overcome.
Psalms 124:7-8 “Our soul is escaped as a bird out of the snare of the fowlers: the snare is broken, and we are escaped.
Our help is in the name of the LORD, who made heaven and earth.”
To be like Christ, as is the goal of a Christian, means that we need to deny those ungodly and worldly lusts that is so, unfortunately, natural for a person without the guidance of Christ to fall into. Covetousness, pride, lying, hatred etc. Put those things away, and put on Christ.
1 Peter 4:1-3 “Forasmuch then as Christ hath suffered for us in the flesh, arm yourselves likewise with the same mind: for he that hath suffered in the flesh hath ceased from sin;
That he no longer should live the rest of his time in the flesh to the lusts of men, but to the will of God.
For the time past of our life may suffice us to have wrought the will of the Gentiles, when we walked in lasciviousness, lusts, excess of wine, revellings, banquetings, and abominable idolatries:”
How is your “oil sensor” doing?
In Christ,
Andrew
Teufer Lake King James Bible Church 