Jesus was without sin. "And you
know that He was manifested to
take away our sins, and in Him
there is no sin" ( I John 3:5).
Jesus was tempted. "For we do
not have a High Priest who
cannot sympathize with our
weaknesses, but was in all points
tempted as we are, yet without
sin" ( Hebrews 4:15).
Therefore, being tempted is not
sinful.
James details the process of sin in
this fashion: "But each one is
tempted when he is drawn away
by his own desires and enticed.
Then, when desire has conceived, it
gives birth to sin; and sin, when it is
full-grown, brings forth
death" ( James 1:14-15). The steps
are:


1. Desires: Each of us is born with a
normal, natural set of desires.
The physical desires are the
consequence of the operation of
our bodies. We also have
spiritual desires, such as not
wanting to be alone, wanting to
be liked by others, or wanting
something pretty.

2. Temptation: Satan tries to place
us in situations where it appears
that the satisfaction of a desire
will require the breaking of a law
of God. Temptation is the forcing
of a choice to be made: either to
break a law of God and satisfy a
desire or to forego satisfaction
in order to keep God's law.


3. Lust (desire conceived): When a
person mentally consents that
breaking a law of God is worth
satisfying the desire, then the
person has moved into the realm
of lust. This is when the person
justifies to himself that breaking
God's law can be excused, at
least in some situations.

4. Sin: This is when a person seizes
an opportunity and actually
breaks God's law.

5. Licentiousness (sin full-grown):
Sin is rarely done just once. The
excuses to sin come fast, such as
"I've done it once, doing it again
isn't going to make much
difference." Eventually the
person becomes calloused to sin
and no longer feels guilty about
what he is doing. He doesn't care
what other people think. He may
even convince himself that he
has the right to sin.
(Licentiousness means thinking
you have a license to sin.)

6. Death: A person fully convinced
that he ought to sin and doesn't
care what even God thinks about
his actions won't be persuaded
out of his sin. Since he won't
leave his sin, he will die in his sin.
As an example, hunger is a desire --
it is neither right nor wrong.
Temptation is when you are in the
convenience store and see a candy
bar, but realize you don't have
enough money to pay for it. Lust is
when you tell yourself that the
store can afford to lose some items
and that they are expecting some
loss, or telling yourself that you
could pocket it now and pay for it
later and you accept that these are
adequate justification to steal. Sin is
when you walk out with the candy
bar without paying for it.
Licentiousness is when you think it
is fun to take things off the shelf
even though you have adequate
money to pay for it. And from there
it is a short step to spiritual death.

Source
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