Temptation

What Meanest Thou, O Sleeper?

Jonah 1:5-6

… See also, in our text, one of the devices of Satan. He seeks to lull God’s prophets into slumber, for he knows that dumb dogs that are …

Lessons from the Christ of Patmos

Revelation 1:16

… When we do not seek after another god, we are still tempted to worship the true God under some visible, tangible form—and this is directly opposed to …

Thinking and Turning

Psalm 119:59

… As a child of God, you must not sit down and say, "I am delivered unto these corruptions and given over to the power of Satan." The Son …

The Seed by the Wayside

Luke 8:5

… These hearers understood not the Word, so Satan stole it away from them. Notice that, all the while, this Good Seed, as it did not get into the …

The Victory of Faith

1 John 5:4

… That poor girl has been tempted a thousand times, the evil one has tried to seduce her, but she has fought a valiant battle; stern in her integrity …

'Trust in the Living God'

1 Timothy 4:10

… for us that it was so! There was never a period in which Satan could plot and plan against us, but that God had eternally existed before him …

My Prayer

Psalm 119:37

… Turn away my eyes from beholding vanity, and, "Quicken me in Your way." You see the connection of the prayer? David is exposed to a temptation—the temptation …

Reminiscences as a Village Pastor

… of Scotland, — the temptation was too great to be resisted; but let the wretch be for ever execrated, if such a man really lived, who celebrated the decease …

Gathering in the Chosen

Jeremiah 31:8

… follow in this world, is a very crooked way, and Christians are sometimes tempted to tread that treacherous path. But that is the slimy way into which the …

The Lesson of Uzza

1 Chronicles 13:8

… a sudden, the oxen come to the threshing floor of Chidon and, perhaps, tempted by the sight of the grain, they turn aside, or, at least, they stumble …

The Cause And Cure Of Weariness In Sunday School Teachers

Galatians 6:9

… Take the first word as it stands in our version—you will be tempted to grow weary. Hard work, this teaching children! Some good souls seem born to …

The Best of All Sights

Hebrews 2:9

… It is true we may yet be sorely tempted and the battle may go hard with us, but we see Jesus triumphant and by this sign we grasp …

The Three Whats

Ephesians 1:18-20

… Is it not written, "Incline your ear and come unto Me, hear and your soul shall live"? Many a man has been tempted to start upon a voyage …

The Secret of Failure

Matthew 17:19-21

… It is long since we had a temptation to certain forms of sin—we sent them adrift in the name of the Lord. But there are certain others …

The Secret of Strength

… keeps thee still shining, and prevents thee from being extinguished? Hast thou overcome temptation? Hang not up thy banner; do not decorate thine own bosom with the glory …

Broken Bones

Psalm 51:8

… As the cunning hunter always makes the passage into his pits most easy and attractive, but always renders it most difficult for his victim to escape, so Satan …

'As' and 'So'

Colossians 2:6

… Are we just as eager to walk in Him? I know that some of you are sorely tempted—are you standing fast? Are you standing up for Jesus …

Blessings Manifold and Marvelous

Psalm 18:19

… Is that your temptation, Friend? I know it is mine. I have a sluggish, drowsy soul. I wish I could keep awake and vigorous in my Master's …

The Song of Songs

Isaiah 44:23

… Though the temptation and the guilt were like a seven times heated furnace, yet, because he, the Son of God, came into the burning furnace with us, we …

The House of Mourning and The House of Feasting

Ecclesiastes 7:2

… I be kept from the house of sinful feasting! May I never be tempted to cross that threshold! O young men who are enchanted by its gaiety, charmed …

The Approachableness of Jesus

Luke 15:1

… I read just now, in your hearing, that he can be touched with a feeling of our infirmities, and that he was tempted in all points like as …

The Great Change

Hosea 14:8

… O Satan, O Self, O World, I have served you all too long and now, my God, with deep regret for all the past, I turn my face …

Psalm 66

Psalm 66

… For God to accept our devotions, while we are delighting in sin, would be to make himself the God of hypocrites, which is a fitter name for Satan …

Divine Destruction and Protection

Ezekiel 17:29

… Eve took of the accursed fruit, and Adam partook of the same, and henceforth man became a rival to God, just as Satan, aforetime, had rebelled against the …

Strange Dispensations and Matchless Consolations

Hosea 2:14

… that which God uses when He is about to set free one of Satan's bondsmen. He first of all gives us the blow of conviction and then …

God's Innumerable Mercies

Psalm 71:15

… He is working out our deliverance from inbred sin as well as from outward temptation and trial. Very often the darkest days that we have are bright with …

A Clarion Call to Saints and Sinners

Micah 2:10

… What did poor Stand-Fast do? In an agony he fell down and prayed! Because he was poor, he was tempted by her purse and his heart began …

Debtors and Debtors

Luke 7:41

… You may even have been tempted, in a moment of pride, to look upon them as very commonplace sort of folk—and you are quite aware, without any …

A Holy Celebration

Exodus 12:42

… We have been held up till now and who could have held us up but our Lord? We have sometimes been in a very perilous condition—temptation has …

Camp Law and Camp Life

Deuteronomy 23:14

… O Friends, this custom comes from the lowest depth and is full of the cunning of Satan! It will be our destruction if the attempt should succeed! The …

The Lord Blessing His Saints

Psalm 115:15

… tempted! Besides, the child of God, in addition to what he feels within, is often called to suffer the curses of the world and the curses of Satan …

Girding on the Harness

1 Kings 20:11

… preachers we are going to be and what wonders we shall certainly accomplish! Satan has patted us with his black paw and told us that we have done …

Psalm 120

Psalm 120

… be haughty, and for Christ to humble it; for a soul to be tempted, and for Christ to succour it; and for a soul to be wounded, and …

Chastisement

Hebrews 12:5

… On the one hand we are tempted to feel that we can do something, and to trust in our works, and if we try to shun that, we …

'Do I Love the Lord or Not?'

John 21:17

… Years of trial and temptation—and especially any experience of backsliding—will pluck some of the feathers out of us and make us feel humble before the Lord …

Who Is This?

Isaiah 62:11

… Jesus can say to the prisoners, "Go forth," and forth they shall go! There is no temptation, no sin, no infernal influence from which He cannot rescue His …

A King Sent in Love

2 Chronicles 2:11

… He was in all things made like unto His brethren and, while upon the earth, He was tempted in all points like as we are. But—"Now, though …

Good Cheer From Grace Received

Matthew 9:20-22

… And well it may be, for flesh is weak and the world is bewitching—and Satan is subtle and deceitful. Whatever comfort there is in our present meditation …

The Monster Dragged to Light

Romans 7:13

… He does not say, "Sin, that it might appear like Satan." No, for sin is worse than the devil since it made the devil what he is. Satan …

Gratitude for Great Deliverances

Psalm 102:19-22

… had to judge themselves, they would have to condemn themselves! And, perhaps, meanwhile, Satan is reminding them of the wrath to come and making them feel how certain …