>There is a platform known as exposure to temptation, and all men stand there. From it, each one goes either up or down.
Seven Awful Steps Downwards.
1. Trifling with sin.
2. Yielding to sin.
3. Habitual yielding to sin.
4. Abandonment to sin. Eph 4:19.
5. Abandonment of God to sin. Rom 1:28.
6. Entering into alliance with the devil to tempt others to sin.
7. Hell: and you do not have to die in order to get there. Hell is character, as well as a location. The man who hates everything that God loves is in Hell now, and Hell is in him.
2. Yielding to sin.
3. Habitual yielding to sin.
4. Abandonment to sin. Eph 4:19.
5. Abandonment of God to sin. Rom 1:28.
6. Entering into alliance with the devil to tempt others to sin.
7. Hell: and you do not have to die in order to get there. Hell is character, as well as a location. The man who hates everything that God loves is in Hell now, and Hell is in him.
Seven Glorious Steps Upward.
1. Resistance as an attitude: determining that sin shall not have dominion over you.
2. Over coming sin, by faith in Christ.
3. Habitual victory over sin. The strength that comes from the victory helps in overcoming the next temptation,
4. Learning the secret of a victorious life, a life “hid with Christ in God”.
5. Taken up by God into deeper fellowship. You trusted God and now God trusts you. “O Daniel, greatly beloved,” yet he was only a man!
6. Made a succorer of others: like “the Shadow of a great rock in a weary land.”
2. Over coming sin, by faith in Christ.
3. Habitual victory over sin. The strength that comes from the victory helps in overcoming the next temptation,
4. Learning the secret of a victorious life, a life “hid with Christ in God”.
5. Taken up by God into deeper fellowship. You trusted God and now God trusts you. “O Daniel, greatly beloved,” yet he was only a man!
6. Made a succorer of others: like “the Shadow of a great rock in a weary land.”
Taken from “To To Die Is Gain – The Triumph of John and Betty Stam”