Winning the War Within

by Charles Stanley

Publisher:

Thomas Nelson

, 1988

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.

Contents

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)

Product Details

• Title: Winning the War Within
• Author: Charles Stanley
• Edition: electronic ed.
• Publisher: Thomas Nelson
• Print Publication Date: 1988
• Logos Release Date: 2006
• Language: English
• Resources: 1
• Format: Digital › Logos Research Edition
• Subject: Temptation
• ISBNs: 9781418531966, 1418531960
• Resource ID: LLS:40.170.16
• Resource Type: Monograph
• Metadata Last Updated: 2022-09-28T20:17:20Z

About Charles Stanley

Charles Stanley (1932–2023) was often called “America’s Pastor.” He earned his bachelor of divinity at Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary and his master’s degree and doctorate at Luther Rice Seminary. His theological viewpoint was evangelical and dispensational in nature.

Stanley served as senior pastor of the First Baptist Church Atlanta from 1971-2020. He ws the founder and president of In Touch Ministries and had served two terms as president of the Southern Baptist Convention. The radio and television broadcast In Touch with Dr. Charles Stanley aired around the world in more than 50 languages and covered an array of topics—from finances to parenting.

Stanley was a New York Times bestselling author who had written more than 45 books, including The Charles F. Stanley Life Principles Bible, The Reason for My Hope, Walking Wisely: Real Guidance for Life’s Journey, and dozens more in The Charles Stanley Collection (46 vols.).