{"id":37855,"date":"2020-11-06T12:50:00","date_gmt":"2020-11-06T12:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.christianitytoday.com\/pastors\/preaching\/sermon-illustrations\/resist-enemy-like-llama\/"},"modified":"2020-11-06T12:50:00","modified_gmt":"2020-11-06T12:50:00","slug":"resist-enemy-like-llama","status":"publish","type":"sermon-illustrations","link":"https:\/\/www.christianitytoday.com\/pastors\/preaching\/sermon-illustrations\/resist-enemy-like-llama\/","title":{"rendered":"Resist the Enemy &#8230; Like the Llama"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Like many sheep ranchers in the West, Lexy Fowler has tried just about everything to stop crafty coyotes from killing her sheep. She has used odor sprays, electric fences, and &ldquo;scare-coyotes.&rdquo; She has slept with her lambs during the summer and has placed battery-operated radios near them. She has corralled them at night, herded them during the day. But the southern Montana rancher has lost scores of lambs&#8211;fifty last year alone.<\/p>\n\n<p>Then she discovered the llama&#8211;the aggressive, funny-looking, afraid-of-nothing llama. Fowler said, &ldquo;Llamas don&rsquo;t appear to be afraid of anything. When they see something, they put their head up and walk straight toward it. That is aggressive behavior as far as the coyote is concerned, and they won&rsquo;t have anything to do with that. Coyotes are opportunists, and llamas take that opportunity away.&rdquo;<\/p>\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading is-style-article-subhead2\">Possible Preaching Angle:<\/h2>\n\n<p><em>The author of temptation is much like the coyote&#8211;he is an opportunist. But if we are firm in our faith in God to give us the strength we need to resist temptation, then he can be beaten. &ldquo;Submit yourselves therefore to God. 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