What Happens When Man Goes Into Temptation | Understanding Temptation | Pastor Princewill Afolabi
Channel: Princewill Afolabi Ministries [PAM]
Date: 2023-04-02

Min: Pastor Princewill Afolabi
Topic: Understanding Temptation
Subtopic: What happens when man goes into temptation
Text: 1 Samuel 16:14


The moment man goes into sin, the spirit of God dwelling in him leaves him and instantly, devil comes in. the spirit of God does not announce the time it’s going. It departs silently. That’s why you must not go into sin.

The Holy Spirit does not stay in sin. We must never forget that it is the presence of Holy Spirit that makes three things to happen in your life;

1. The Holy Spirit is God’s seal in our life. Ephesians 1:13. There’s no mark of God’s ownership upon your life if you don’t have the seal of God.

2. The presence of the Holy Ghost in us makes us extra ordinary humans that the devil and his agent are afraid of. 1 John 4:4. The devil is introducing sin so that the Holy Ghost will leave your life and when this happens, you become empty.


3. The Holy Ghost in us will manifest great spiritual fruits. 1 Corr. 12:7-10. The gift of the Holy Spirit is to manifest in the life of anyone living rightly.

Check yourself with fruits of the spirit, not with gifts of the spirit. Gal 5:22-23
1. The fruit of love
2. The fruit of joy
3. The fruit of peace, inner peace.
4. The fruit of patience, kindness, faithfulness, gentleness, self control.
Anyone with the holy ghost will be able to tell themselves NO

Question.
When God’s presence departs from the life of the believer that fell into temptation, will the gift depart from their life too?
Answer.
The fruit that show you have the Holy Spirit in your life will gradually fade away but the gifts and calls will remain. Rom 11:29

Even after a person backslides, his gift will remain with him. You don’t weigh your relationship with God by your gift. 

The Holy Spirit will leave and the devil will come in, to continue using the gift. That is why it is dangerous to dip your hand into sin, as a child of God. Such a person will manifest all the gifts without the presence of God in his life. It shouldn’t surprise you at all. 

The magicians of Pharaoh turned rods to snakes like Moses. 
Stop using your spiritual gifts to check if God’s presence is with you.
That is the confusion of the end time.
When the Holy Spirit leaves, the human flesh takes over. 
Weigh yourself on the scale of the fruit of the Holy Spirit.

When the fruit of God has departed from you;
• The loving believer will gradually become the selfish believer. The thing he was able to do under the influence of the fruit of God will be impossible because God has left him.
• The peaceful believer will now become worried and anxious. Matt 24
• The patience believer will no longer trust that God will show up.
• The kind believer will suddenly become hostile.
• The good believer will become rude.
• The faithful believer will no longer care about his integrity.
• The gentle believer will become wayward.
• The believer with self control will begin to loosen up. Such Christian will begin to leave without boundaries again.

All these happened because the holy spirit left.

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