James 1:2-4 My brethren, count it all joy when ye fall into divers temptations; Knowing this, that the trying of your faith worketh patience. But let patience have her perfect work, that ye may be perfect and entire, wanting nothing.

Dick van Dyke was famous for his Pratt falls. He would trip, slip, stumble and sometimes flip over the tiniest of objects, often as small as a hair or piece of string. It is silly to think that we are so easily tripped up by little sins. If we have been walking with the Lord fo any length of time at all, we know where temptation comes from, our old nature.

1 John 2:16 For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh, and the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life, is not of the Father, but is of the world.

John 15:19 If ye were of the world, the world would love his own: but because ye are not of the world, but I have chosen you out of the world, therefore the world hateth you.

He who walks in the spirit does not stumble nor fall. To walk by faith requires a purpose, a direction, a mindset, an unction. When we have this the temptations of the old life are suppressed. It is not that temptation still does not exist, it is ignored, passed over, like a hair on the floor that will not trip us up.

Our problem is that we do not always walk in the spirit. We are human and as such not yet perfected. We walk through the world, even though our lives are in Christ. We perceive the world, we see. smell and taste the world yet these are not temptations. They are the world.

Romans 6:2 How shall we, that are dead to sin, live any longer therein?

Temptation is the old dead man we were knocking on the coffin. Don’t answer.