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Temptation, Satan, spiritual warfare, and resisting sin
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Voices from the Excellent Glory
Matthew 3:16
… That heavenly declaration, be it also remembered, came just before His memorable temptation. He was to be forty days in the wilderness tempted of the devil, and among …
SERMON • SERMON 4The Personality of the Holy Ghost
John 14:16-17
… 9, of the same book, you will find that the Holy Ghost may be tempted. We are informed that Peter said to Ananias and Sapphira, “How is it …
SERMON • SERMON 803Israel's God and God's Israel
Deuteronomy 33:26-28
… Hunted by Satan, molested by inward corruptions, tempted by the world, slandered by cruel tongues—but in the bosom of Jesus Christ like a dove, alone, always secure …
SERMON • SERMON 3519A Gospel Promise
Ezekiel 36:27
… Help me when I am tempted, that I may withstand the subtle arts of Satan. Help me to overcome my bad temper, to get rid of the pride …
SERMON • SERMON 439The Danger Of Doubting
1 Samuel 27:1
… But if faith never gave place to unbelief, we might be tempted to lift up the Believer into a demi-god and think him something more than mortal …
SERMON • SERMON 693The Garden Of The Soul
Matthew 26:36
… If carefully pondered you may discover that there is a singular and striking connection between the triple temptation and the triple prayer. Having fought Satan at the first …
SERMON • SERMON 2135The Warnings and the Rewards of the Word of God
Psalm 19:11
… temptation, but deliver us from the Evil One." The temptations of the world and of the flesh are more upon our level than the assaults of Satan—he …
SERMON • SERMON 3396Experiencing Confirming Testimony
Psalm 48:8
… That there is no power of Irresistible Grace which turns them from darkness to light, and from the power of sin and Satan unto God. Ah, we have …
SERMON • SERMON 3160The Call of 'Today'
Hebrews 3:7
… Therefore (as the Holy Spirit says, Today, if you will hear His voice, harden not your hearts, as in the provocation, in the day of temptation in the …
SERMON • SERMON 1793The Glory in the Rear
Exodus 14:19-20
… faithful, who will not suffer you to be tempted above that ye are able; but will with the temptation also make a way to escape, that ye may …
SERMON • SERMON 2757Victorious Faith
1 John 5:4
… If, for instance, we are tempted to think that the restrictions of God's Law—His commandments and precepts are too stringent, it is the spirit of the …
SERMON • SERMON 2462The Known and the Unknown
Ecclesiastes 6:12
… I know that we are often tempted to reckon that we shall live to a ripe old age, but, suppose we should he spared 70 or 80 years …
SERMON • SERMON 3131The Fainting Hero
Judges 15:18
… You have been tempted by Satan. You have been tempted by the world. Your nearest and dearest friends have, perhaps, been your worst tempters, for "a man's …
SERMON • SERMON 963Our King, Our Joy
Psalm 149:2
… because we see so much of our labor lost, and so many tempted of Satan, turning aside, we will rejoice that the honor of our exalted King is …
SERMON • SERMON 3397A Timely Expostulation
Luke 24:5
… If the Christian wants to be clear from open transgression, let him eschew the place of temptation and avoid the appearance of evil—for whatever is not of …
SERMON • SERMON 3239Woe and Weal
Micah 7:9
… The arrows of temptation have come upwards from the Pit and often the blows of the rod have came downward from the Throne. There is no form of …
SERMON • SERMON 1144A Mighty Plea
Psalm 27:9
… You, too, dear Friends, have been in such a position that you were strongly tempted to do wrong. Impulses both of your own nature and of Satan were …
SERMON • SERMON 2226"Lay Hold on Eternal Life!"
1 Timothy 6:12
… have this eternal life, in the power and reality of it! And whenever Satan tempts you to think that it is a fiction, a dream, a piece of …
SERMON • SERMON 2099Concerning the Consolations Of God
Job 15:11
… For He was "in all points tempted like as we are." Many of us have found this to be an eminent comfort. Do you not think it must …
SERMON • SERMON 2118The Planter of the Ear Must Hear
Psalm 94:9
… If you have ever been forced to hear or read the expressions of renowned infidels, you can form some idea of how completely Satan works his will with …
SERMON • SERMON 3419God, the Husband of His People
Jeremiah 31:32
… We have crossed the Jordan of doubts and fears, and though we have not driven out the Canaanites of daily temptation, yet we still possess the land, for …
SERMON • SERMON 1843A Question for a Questioner
Psalm 77:9
… Do you know what it is to have a keen thought working like an auger into your brain? Has Satan seemed to pierce and gimlet your mind with …
SERMON • SERMON 849Unsound Spiritual Trading
Proverbs 16:2
… He suffers a temptation to come when we do not expect it, and then the evil bolls up within us, and we who thought we were next door …
SERMON • SERMON 2914A Mournful Defection
John 6:67
… The devil himself was not such a subtle foe to Christ as was Judas, when, after the Supper, Satan entered into him. Judas was a friend of Jesus …
SERMON • SERMON 3117Eyes Opened
2 Kings 6:17
… We need to have our eyes opened with regard to temptation, for we may think that we are not being tempted at the very moment when we are …
SERMON • SERMON 862Winnowing Time
Jeremiah 23:28
… You have been tried, exercised, tempted, and much tossed about, and you think you are losing a great deal. So you are, but what a blessed loss if …
SERMON • SERMON 1954The Breaker and the Flock
Micah 2:12
… Think of the hardness of our hearts, the waywardness of our wills, the blindness of our judgments, the readiness of our minds to yield to temptation! How can …
SERMON • SERMON 1557Walking Humbly With God
Micah 6:8
… A great deal of apparent virtue may be due to our not happening to be tempted at the time when we are in a certain condition, or else …
COMMENTARYPsalm 88
Psalm 88
… Thank God O ye tempted ones who yet retain your reason! Thank him that the devil himself cannot add that feather while the Lord stands by to adjust …
SERMON • SERMON 852Constancy And Inconstancy—a Contrast
Hosea 6:3
… Young people, impressed early when they have not known temptation, because they have not gone out from their parents' homes, too often disappoint us in later life. The …
SERMON • SERMON 2984A Silly Dove
Hosea 7:11
… And they tempted God in their heart by asking meat for their lust. Not for their needs, but "for their lust." It is a dreadful thing when prayer …
SERMON • SERMON 35God's People in the Furnace
Isaiah 48:10
… How many persons there are who suppose that because they are tried, afflicted, and tempted, therefore they are the children of God, whereas they are no such thing …
SERMON • SERMON 194Human Responsibility
John 15:22
… sin, and at last they have been driven almost to despair, for Satan has tempted them to forsake the house of God; for says he, “The more you …
SERMON • SERMON 908Assured Security In Christ
2 Timothy 1:12
… Many of you have been troubled as to whether you are able to endure temptation. You need not debate the subject. It is clear that apart from Christ …
SERMON • SERMON 1138Morning And Evening Songs
Psalm 92:2
… God to you! It is that upon which Satan makes a dead aim in the minds of many tempted ones and, therefore, to that you should bring the …
SERMON • SERMON 2150"All the Day Long"
Proverbs 23:17
… It occurred in those past ages and it still occurs—"Let not your heart envy sinners." We are often tempted to repine because the wicked prosper. When we …
SERMON • SERMON 463Sermon 463. Christ'S Servant—His Duty And Reward
John 12:26
… You, too, must be tempted. Do not think when you are tempted that, therefore, you are out of Christ. No—if you would be His servant, you must …
SERMON • SERMON 2996Enquiring of God
2 Samuel 2:1
… flag waves defiantly over the strongest and loftiest part of our bastion, for Satan delights to pull down our lofty things of which we are so proud—just …
SERMON • SERMON 2718The Tenses
2 Corinthians 1:10
… Yet it may be that Satan is planning some fresh temptation with which to assail you. But, though he desires to have you that he may sift you …
SERMON • SERMON 3412The Heavenly Rainbow
Revelation 4:3
… tempted beyond your strength, but He has promised that no temptation shall happen to you, but such as is common to man, and He will, with the temptation …