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Temptation
Temptation, Satan, spiritual warfare, and resisting sin
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Morning, January 24
Ps 91:3
… At other times, God keeps his people from the snare of the fowler by giving them great spiritual strength, so that when they are tempted to do evil …
DEVOTIONALMorning, May 31
2Sa 15:23
… It is a great joy to believe that Jesus has been tempted in all points like as we are. What is our Kidron this morning? Is it a …
DEVOTIONALEvening, December 13
Is 54:12
… shine through the windows of agate with a soft radiance inexpressibly soothing to tempted souls. Sanctification , as it conforms us to our Lord, is another agate window. Only …
SERMON • SERMON 1098Wonders
Joel 2:26
… Will they not—the angels—say to one another, "Here are men and women who were tempted in a thousand ways, who carried about with them bodies of …
SERMON • SERMON 436A Sermon For Spring
Solomon 2:10-13
… The great temporal affliction which had crushed us was suddenly removed and the strong temptation of Satan was taken off from us. The deep depression of spirit which …
DEVOTIONALEvening, November 28
Es 10:3
… plead daily for the weak of the Lord’s people, the doubting, the tempted, and the comfortless. It will redound to their honour if they make much intercession …
SERMON • SERMON 3448God's Glory and His Goodness
Exodus 33:18-23
… Poor man! The money tempted him! Let us take a merciful view of the matter. Is not money a commodity that everybody is anxious to get? Are we …
COMMENTARYPsalm 31
Psalm 31
… It may need a sharp pull to save a soul from the net of temptation, and a mighty pull to extricate a man from the snares of malicious …
DEVOTIONALMorning, November 30
2Ch 25:9
… Judah, and possibly it is of even more weight with the tried and tempted O Christian. To lose money is at no times pleasant, and when principle involves …
SERMON • SERMON 1245Why Men Cannot Believe in Christ
John 5:44
… believe in Christ—and they cannot believe because they love the place of temptation. They hesitate. They deliberate. They say that they cannot believe in Jesus, but if …
SERMON • SERMON 1177Fearful Of Coming Short
Hebrews 4:1
… which separates you from the world? Does it inspire you to fight against temptation? Does it lead you to conquer sin? Does it impel you to walk with …
SERMON • SERMON 3379Rough, But Friendly
Genesis 42:25
… In their sufferings they have enjoyed a sight of the greater sufferings of Christ— "Why should I complain of want or distress, Temptation or pain? He told me …
SERMON • SERMON 3433Love's Reward
Psalm 91:14
… strong temptation, that you have been sorely beset with them of late—that your condition and position are full of danger and jeopardy—that, being tempted by those …
SERMON • SERMON 2554The Spiritual Resurrection
John 11:43
… We could not grapple with a single temptation. We felt ourselves to be powerless, lost, dead. Sinner, I tell you, you are dead as to all spiritual matters …
SERMON • SERMON 3315Joy in Harvest
Isaiah 9:3
… Some of God's people have been by the week and month together exposed to the double temptation, from outside and from within, and have cried to God …
SERMON • SERMON 1153The Matchless Mystery
Ephesians 5:30
… know anything about adoption? Have you been taken out of the family of Satan and enrolled in the family of God? Have you the Spirit of adoption in …
SERMON • SERMON 2716Christ's Poverty, Our Riches
2 Corinthians 8:9
… For in that He Himself has suffered being tempted, He is able to succor them that are tempted." "We have not a High Priest who cannot be touched …
SERMON • SERMON 2709Christ's Past and Present Witnesses
John 15:27
… that, rather than deny it, "they were stoned, they were sawn asunder, were tempted, were slain with the sword; they wandered about in sheepskins and goatskins; being destitute …
SERMON • SERMON 2256Daniel's Band
Daniel 10:11
… feet almost slipped? How often have you been tempted? Ah, worse than that, how often have you yielded to temptation? Yet here you are, your character not ruined …
SERMON • SERMON 33A Wise Desire
Psalm 47:4
… as Pharaoh’s dream! Did Joseph desire to be tempted of his mistress? He chose to reject the temptation, but did he choose the trial? Nay, God sent …
SERMON • SERMON 1664"Jehovah-Rophi"
Exodus 15:26
… made the same descent? If you are in poverty you are, no doubt, tempted to put that trinity of questions, "What shall we eat? What shall we drink …
SERMON • SERMON 13Consolation Proportionate to Spiritual Sufferings
2 Corinthians 1:5
… Thou wast once a servant of Satan and no king will willingly lose his subjects. Dost thou think that Satan be pleased with thee? Why, thou hast changed …
SERMON • SERMON 3325Solace for Sad Hearts
Isaiah 61:3
… We sorrow every day that there should be any remains of sin in us, that we should still be open to temptation and should have the slightest inclination …
SERMON • SERMON 2028The Love of God and the Patience of Christ
2 Thessalonians 3:5
… What patience for Him whom Cherubim obey! Oh, the patience of the Christ to be tempted of the devil! One can hardly tell what patience Christ must have …
SERMON • SERMON 3047If So—what Then?
1 Peter 4:18
… THE RIGHTEOUS ARE ONLY SAVED WITH DIFFICULTY—THEN TEMPTED SOULS MAY BE SAVED. That Truth of God has given me comfort when I have thought, "Well, it is …
SERMON • SERMON 2140A Homily for Humble Folks
Proverbs 30:2
… Desire them? Never, while reason remains to you! Do you not think, too, that many are more deeply convicted of sin, more seriously tried and more fiercely tempted …
SERMON • SERMON 2468Solitude, Silence, Submission
Lamentations 3:28
… No, when you know that anything is a sin, stay away from the temptation! He that does not want to get wet should not go out into the …
SERMON • SERMON 2217Three Names High on the Muster Roll
Daniel 3:16-18
… a gnat! So Adam eats the apple, Esau the pottage and the one temptation, unresisted, issues in life-long loss! Not even for a few minutes in a …
SERMON • SERMON 2924Preventing Grace
1 Samuel 25:32
… And at other times the opportunity has been before our eyes, but there was no temptation. God help the man that has the temptation and the opportunity at …
SERMON • SERMON 1932Love's Law and Life
John 14:15
… people and you have never been out into the wicked world to be tempted by its follies—therefore you come to an immediate conclusion that you must assuredly …
SERMON • SERMON 539Heavenly Lovesickness!
Solomon 5:8
… I will venture to say that the temptation of Heaven itself, if it could be offered to the Believer without his Christ, would be as less than nothing …
SERMON • SERMON 713Soul Murder—Who Is Guilty?
Psalm 51:14
… Never came there a young man within his range but what he tempted him to the tavern and to places still worse. If one saw any youth of …
SERMON • SERMON 1636Chastened Happiness
Jeremiah 33:9
… To my mind there is no temptation so bad as not being tempted at all. The worst devil in the world is when you cannot see the devil …
SERMON • SERMON 1198The Master
John 11:28
… He experienced life in all its phases and was tempted in all points like we are, though without sin. The highest were not above Him, the lowest He …
SERMON • SERMON 2957Advance!
Deuteronomy 1:6
… speaks peace, not punishment, and cries out for mercy, not for justice! O tempted, distressed, despairing soul, you have dwelt long enough in Mount Sinai! At this glad …
SERMON • SERMON 1426The Lifting Up of the Bowed Down
Luke 13:10-13
… When Satan binds a soul it is as truly bound as when a man binds an ox or an ass. It cannot get free. It is of necessity …
SERMON • SERMON 895A Summons To Battle
2 Samuel 11:1
… Such are the dangers of inaction to us all—it may not precisely take that form—for Satan knows how to adapt the temptation to each man's …
SERMON • SERMON 2032The Charge of the Angel
Acts 5:19
… Disdaining such an adversary, I hear him cry, "Am I a dog, that You come to me with staves?" Yes, Satan, you are no better than a dog …
SERMON • SERMON 311The Beginning, Increase, and End of the Divine Life
Job 8:7
… Behold Satan in the garden of Eden. Sin begins with the promise, “Ye shall be as gods!” How grand is its beginning! Where ends it? Shivering beneath the …
SERMON • SERMON 2213"Honey In The Mouth!"
John 16:14
… of One who is touched with the feeling of their infirmities, having been tempted in all points like as they still are! Oh, my Brothers, if we once …