That may be good advice. But I don't think it works. It won't work because temptation will find you wherever you live. The book of 1 Peter describes him as a lion on the hunt. He'll search us out and find us wherever we are.
Temptation is a funny thing.
We're going to return in a couple of weeks to our sermon series on the spiritual disciplines. And I'm going to preach a whole sermon on how to resist temptation and wage spiritual battle. But this first Lenten sermon is a good warm-up for that message. It will help us realize what temptation really is. The things that tempt us usually seem so harmless, so reasonable.