The 911 Handbook Study Guide Questions

Lesson 4 / Chapter 4

When You Are Tempted: Adam & Eve's Instruction Manual

 If Adam and Eve could have written an instruction manual, they would have taught us eight lessons.

Lesson #1: We can reduce temptations by avoiding the places of temptation.

How are some ways we can avoid places of temptation?

What did Jesus mean when He said, "Lead us not into temptation"?

Lesson #2: We open ourselves to temptation when we decide to provide for the flesh.

Read Romans 13:14. What does it mean to provide for the flesh?

Discuss how your decision is the pivotal point in the temptation process.

Lesson #3: When we move into the place of temptation, Satan will be waiting there to tempt us.

How did Satan know to wait for Adam and Eve at the forbidden tree?

What does it mean to make no place for the devil (Eph. 4:27)?

Lesson #4: After we have entered into temptation, we become blinded to the consequences.

Discuss the difference between how we see consequences when we are outside the temptation versus after we have entered into temptation.

Why do we become blinded after we have entered into temptation?

Lesson #5: The pull of temptation increases the closer we get to the forbidden fruit.

How does the following statement apply to us today: "It is hard to pick fruit if you are a hundred yards away, but it is easy if you are at arm's length."

Why does willpower grow weaker when we are nearer to the temptation?

Lesson #6: We must run away from temptation rather than try to resist it.

Why is it impossible to successfully overcome temptation by trying to resist it?

(See Matt. 26:41).

How is the best way to get out of temptation? (1 Cor. 6:18, 2 Tim. 2:22).

When we flee, what are we running out of?

Lesson #7: Forbidden fruit is never as sweet as you have been told it will be.

Discuss what Adam and Eve must have thought immediately after they ate from the forbidden fruit.

Just from observing people, does it look like people are enjoying today's forbidden fruit?

What can we learn from this?

Lesson #8: When we are full of God's fruit, we won't be hungry for forbidden fruit.

Discuss how eating the legitimate fruit would have prevented Adam and Eve from eating forbidden fruit.

How does this apply to us today?

What is God's remedy for victory over temptation? (Gal. 5:16)