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Temptation
God cannot be the subject of - Jas 1:13
Does not come from God - Jas 1:13
COMES FROM
- Lusts- Jas 1:14
- Covetousness- Pr 28:20; 1Ti 6:9,10
The devil is the author of - 1Ch 21:1; Mt 4:1; Joh 13:2; 1Th 3:5
Evil associates, the instruments of - Pr 1:10; 7:6; 16:29
OFTEN ARISES THROUGH
- Poverty- Pr 30:9; Mt 4:2,3
- Prosperity- Pr 30:9; Mt 4:8
- Worldly glory- Nu 22:17; Da 4:30; 5:2; Mt 4:8
To distrust of God's providence - Mt 4:3
To presumption - Mt 4:6
To worshipping the god of this world - Mt 4:9
Often strengthened by the perversion of God's word - Mt 4:6
PERMITTED AS A TRIAL OF
- Faith- 1Pe 1:7; Jas 1:2,3
- Disinterestedness- Job 1:9-12
Always conformable to the nature of man - 1Co 10:13
Often ends in sin and perdition - 1Ti 6:9; Jas 1:15
CHRIST
- Endured, from the devil- Mr 1:13
- Endured, from the wicked- Mt 16:1; 22:18; Lu 10:25
- Resisted by the word of God- Mt 4:4,7,10
- Overcame- Mt 4:11
- Sympathises with those under- Heb 4:15
- Is able to help those under- Heb 2:18
- Intercedes for his people under- Lu 22:31,32; Joh 17:15
God will not suffer saints to be exposed to, beyond their powers to bear - 1Co 10:13
God will make a way for saints to escape out of - 1Co 10:13
God enables the saints to bear - 1Co 10:13
God knows how to deliver saints out of - 2Pe 2:9
Christ keeps faithful saints from the hour of - Re 3:10
Saints may be in heaviness through - 1Pe 1:6
SAINTS SHOULD
- Resist, in faith- Eph 6:16; 1Pe 5:9
- Watch against- Mt 26:41; 1Pe 5:8
- Pray to be kept from- Mt 6:13; 26:41
- Not to occasion, to others- Ro 14:13
- Restore those overcome by- Ga 6:1
- Avoid the way of- Pr 4:14,15
The devil will renew - Lu 4:13
Has strength through the weakness of the flesh - Mt 26:41
Mere professors fall away in time of - Lu 8:13
Blessedness of those who meet and overcome - Jas 1:2-4,12
Exemplified
- Eve- Ge 3:1,4,5
- Joseph- Ge 39:7
- Balaam- Nu 22:17
- Achan- Jos 7:21
- David- 2Sa 11:2
- Jeroboam- 1Ki 15:30
- Peter- Mr 14:67-71
- Paul- 2Co 12:7; Ga 4:14 Next Topic (Tents)