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I want you to kind of think about what is your guilty pleasure candy, okay? Um for me Junior mints hands down you tell me like hey, we're going to the store. We're gonna get some some candy for whatever Junior mints, baby. I want nothing else um Even just kind of talking about it makes me really want to go to the store and get some junior mints I could eat those every night and be like the happiest guy on the planet and my desire for junior mints doesn't mean That i'm eating junior mints, right? I'm, very aware that I want junior mints right now but This does not mean that i'm actually doing that. Okay This in mind I want us to look at James 1 13 through 15 and i'm sure you can read it below here. This is what it says Hmm when tempted No one should say god is tempting me. No one should say that for god cannot be tempted by evil Nor does he tempt anyone? But each person is tempted when they are dragged away by their own evil desires and enticed Then after desire has conceived it gives birth to sin And sin when it's full grown gives birth to death, okay So James really parts it out for us, right? Desire and temptation are over here And god doesn't even have anything to do with this. But this is it's not sin Sometimes we get these confused and when people talk about sin They're really talking about temptation And it was like, oh i'm tempted. Well Okay in fact temptation and desire Help us understand What gets us to sin and we've got to be really aware of these things here And give ourselves a little bit of grace When we become aware of these things Now jesus in matthew 5 through 7 makes it really clear. Hey, we've got to be really careful even someone who lusts Is committing adultery you can't just go around Feeding temptation and and desire. You can't do that. That's not how this works. You've got to run like hell from this Because the line between this and this sin Um, it can be very very thin and you can't mess around so What is it for you? What is it for you that leads you? Uh into tem that leads you into sin. What are these things here temptation and desire? What what gets you?