Temptation

Boldness at the Throne

Hebrews 4:16

… little care that worries you, some thorn in the flesh, some messenger from Satan to buffet you? Come and tell your God all about it! Cast all your …

Certain Curious Calculations About Loaves and Fishes

Mark 8:19-21

… Waste is of Satan, not of God! God is not lavish of creation, nor prodigal of miracles. Though the Lord can raise up in this place, if He …

Joy in Place of Sorrow

John 16:22

… The Lord has brought us out of the region of darkness into His marvelous light and delivered us forever from the power and dominion of Satan! I saw …

Believers Tested by Trials

Job 23:8-10

… If you get to the very back of all Job's calamities, you will see that God sent them, or, at least, permitted Satan to afflict him. "Yet …

Faith Seeing God's Glory

John 11:40

… Ah, yes, Grace can make bright saints out of black sinners, can take the very scum and dregs of Satan's dominions and make them into sparkling jewels …

The Mission of Affliction

2 Samuel 16:11

… All was quiet within and without—and then Satan moved him to number the people. He thought, "I am the king of a great country and I should …

The Interest Of Christ And His People In Each Other

Solomon 2:16

… He defied all the hosts which had made me their prey, encountered first my sins, and slew them with His blood, He encountered Satan himself next, and bruised …

The God of Peace and Our Sanctification

Hebrews 13:20

… Epistle, Chapter 16, verse 20, he says, "The God of Peace shall bruise Satan under your feet shortly." Again, in the second Epistle to the Corinthians, 13:11 …

Soul-threshing

Isaiah 28:27

… No saint shall be tempted beyond the proper measure—and the limit is fixed by a tenderness which never deals a needless stroke! It is very easy to …

Christian Sympathy

Job 30:25

… How often is the rich man tempted to think that his riches are his own. A certain lady being accosted by a beggar, who asked charity of her …

Thought Condemned, Yet Commanded

Matthew 6:31-33

… for you when you get into Satan's sieve" but, "I have prayed for you already. I have anticipated the temptation by My supplication for you." When Judas …

Ephraim Bemoaning Himself

Jeremiah 31:18

… I was tempted by my circumstances." No, it gives up all excuses because it sees their hollowness. "I sinned," says the man, "I knew it was sin. I …

Bonds Which Could Not Hold

Acts 2:24

… And Satan is casting a fatal spell over the professing church itself, so that it is getting worldly and is giving up its primitive simplicity. Sometimes I am …

Girded for the Work

1 Peter 1:13

… Not hindrances from Satan and the world, alone, but from himself—from things about himself that cling as much to him and seem as necessary for him as …

Sorrow and Sorrow

2 Corinthians 7:10

… There," he says, "I have been tempted over and over again and my feet had well-nigh slipped, but the eternal life within me, kept there by the …

The King's Mowings

Amos 7:1

… When faith vividly realizes the rest that remains for the people of God, we are tempted to long to be up and away! Then why should we wish …

Truthfulness

Jeremiah 5:3

… Any crime is possible to a liar! He who is rotten with falsehood will tear at the touch of temptation. A man of bold, outspoken vice is far …

Days of Heaven Upon the Earth

Deuteronomy 11:21

… You shallnot tempt the LORD your God as you tempted Him in Massah. You shall diligently keep the commandments of the LORD your God, and His testimonies and …

True Learning

Ephesians 4:20

… We must still, to the end of the chapter, be either born of God, born from above, or else continue to lie under the power of Satan. We …

To Sunday School Teachers And Other Soul-winners

James 5:19

… He has been deceived and by the subtlety of Satan he has been decoyed. But do not judge him harshly. Above all do not leave him to perish …

His Name—The Counsellor

Isaiah 9:6

… Did not Satan mask himself in the serpent, and counsel the woman with exceeding craftiness, that she should take unto herself of the fruit of the tree of …

Blessed Discipline

Psalm 94:12-15

… It is with us as it was with our Master—He had been with the wild beasts—worse, still, He had been tempted of the devil. But angels …

The Tender Enquiry of a Friend

Jeremiah 47:5

… Are you not ashamed to have been playing, while God and Heaven and even Satan and Hell are all so terribly in earnest? You have come to years …

Sin—Its Springhead, Stream and Sea

Psalm 106:7

… ashamed! But, listen— "Determined to save, He watched o'er my path When, Satan's blind slave, I sported with death. And can He have taught me to …

Strangers and Sojourners

Psalm 39:12

… Let us imitate his restraint if we resemble him in the temptation to impatience. Verse 1. I said, I will take heed to my ways, that I sin …

I Will Give You Rest

… He who saves us from the battle-axe of Satanic temptation, also extracts the thorn of a domestic trial. We may rest in Jesus as to our sick …

Christ—The Power and Wisdom of God

1 Corinthians 1:24

… With this he keeps the devil at arm’s length; with this he fights against temptation, and against lust, against spiritual wickedness in high places, and with this …

A Dire Disease Strangely Cured

Isaiah 53:5

… It came to this earth when that old serpent, the devil, tempted Mother Eve. Then did this dire disease begin to course through human veins and it has …

The Sweet Harp of Consolation

Isaiah 41:10

… called to an enterprise so high and lofty, and perhaps you will be tempted, like Jonah, to take ship and flee away to Tarshish, that you may escape …

The Search Warrant

John 6:64

… But the Pharisees were such well-made hypocrites—such excellent counterfeits— that many people were tempted to imitate them! Our Lord teaches us, however, that it is no …

God's Dealings With Egypt and Israel

Psalm 78:51

… We shall continue to feet the guilt of our transgressions, but we shall not be able to find the sugar on the pill which tempted us when we …

The Problem of the Age

Mark 8:4

… Are you sure you do? I remember reading of a certain minister who spent many days in wrestling prayer because he was tempted to doubt whether there was …

A Warning to Believers

Colossians 2:18

… Do not be tempted by anything that is said to doubt the completeness of a believer in Christ. Hold this, and as you hold it, enjoy it! Do …

A Sermon to the Lord's Little Children

1 John 2:12

… I have known them tempted away from home and to play the truant. They have gone into the fields after pretty flowers, or down by the brook to …

The Secret Spot

Deuteronomy 32:5

… They are fooled by Satan into the delusion that they are the people of God, whereas they are in the gall of bitterness and in the bonds of …

The Philosophy and Propriety of Abundant Praise

Psalm 145:7

… We have quite enough fluent people about, but they are, many of them, idlers for whom Satan finds abundant work to do. May the Lord deliver us from …

Now, A Sermon for Young Men and Young Women

Ezekiel 12:27

… The evil argument which is mentioned in the text has been used from Ezekiel's day right down to the present moment, and it has served Satan's …

Encouragements To Prayer

Psalm 81:10

… We are no longer under the power of sin and Satan—the Lord has set us free! And, as for our sins, the depths have covered them! There …

Christ's Love to His Spouse

Ephesians 5:25

… He was Himself encompassed with infirmity, when He was here, and tempted in all points like as we are, that He might know all the trials of the …

The Holy Spirit Glorifying Christ

John 16:14

… Come along, you mean sinners, you that have served the devil and now want to run away from him! Steal away from Satan at once, for my Lord …