Winning the War Within
Overview
A few moments of illicit pleasure, a few dollars of illegal gain—what can it hurt? The aftermath of our pleasures and gains can wreak spiritual havoc when those indictments are bought at the cost of wrongdoing. In Winning the War Within, Dr. Stanley examines temptation from a biblical perspective and tracks its course from desire to sin to death. He clarifies the distinction between a test or a trial (which may come from God), and a temptation (which never comes from God) and explains God’s solutions for coping with the trials and for triumphing over temptations.
Top Highlights
“And so Satan sets out to turn our desire to be loved into lust, our desire to be accepted and respected into pride, and our desire for success into greed.” (Pages 61–62)
“Remember, every big habit had a small beginning. We don’t know the damaging potential of even the smallest sin. And if we wait until things get really bad to deal with them, oftentimes we lose our desire to deal with them at all.” (Page 19)
“The awful, never-ending process of combating temptation is God’s means of maturing us and conforming us to the image of Christ. To throw our hands up in defeat is to abandon the process and to miss out on life’s most important lessons. To grow is to be tempted. We can’t have one without the other.” (Page 18)
“Until you are willing to take responsibility for your failures, you will be unwilling and therefore unable to do anything about them.” (Page 35)
“Along these same lines, a third reason you must once again take up the battle against the sinful elements of your lifestyle is that one sin always leads to another. Sin is like a cancer in that it spreads. One undealt-with area opens up other areas as well. Once you become accustomed to a particular sin, once it becomes entrenched in your lifestyle, it is only a matter of time until other areas become problems.” (Pages 13–14)
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