Temptation

Spiritual Glean1ng

Ruth 2:15

… But let us just take an ear or two out of one of the sheaves and show them to you, that you may be tempted to go into …

Faith.

… Whenever we have been tempted to step aside from the path of faith, we have been like the foolish Galatians, and we have smarted for our folly. I …

To the Rescue

Isaiah 49:24

… The fact is, when we begin to lean on experience, we grow weak! Temptation, instead of getting weaker with our age, gets stronger. The passions which we thought …

Faith in Christ's Ability

Matthew 9:28

… with which I am now so sorely afflicted, to sustain me under this temptation which so fiercely assails me, to strengthen me to accomplish this duty which so …

Five Fears

Ecclesiastes 8:12

… There was a time when thy sins never haunted thee, when thou couldst drink and may with Satan and with sin as merrily as anyone. Come, wouldst thou …

Christ is Glorious—Let Us Make Him Known

Micah 5:4

… To what trials, my brethren, has not the Church of God been subjected? What new invention can Satan bring forth? The fire, the rack, imprisonment, banishment, confiscation, slander …

A Door Opened In Heaven

Revelation 4:1

… I refer to victory over sin, self and Satan. How grand a thing to get a passion down and hold it by the throat, strangling it despite its …

The Danger of Carnal Security

Judges 18:7

… Young people, of course, have strong passions and theymay fall into sin, but these old, experienced people are not likely to be carried away by temptation. Some people …

Preach the Gospel

1 Corinthians 9:16

… It grows terribly; and I scarcely know whether you ever find a preacher of the gospel who will not confess that he has the greatest temptation to pride …

Psalm 10

Psalm 10

… Thus it led Satan to rebel against his Creator, and our first parents to desire to be as gods. Since such are the effects of pride, it is …

Praise Your God, O Zion!

Luke 19:37-40

… They had to struggle with inbred sin, and with temptation, and yet there seems to have been no one who on those grounds excluded himself from the choir …

Needless Fears

Isaiah 51:12

… There may come a temptation which will find out their weak point and overthrow them. The vessel has sailed well up to now, though not without much tossing …

Filling Up the Measure of Iniquity

Genesis 15:16

… man was in the street and a temptation was set before him—and he knew it to be a temptation. He stood still a while and thought within …

Restraining Prayer

Job 15:4

… Stop while you may, Believer! Stop and guard against the temptation. I charge you, by the trials you must meet with, by the temptations that surround you, by …

Importance of Small Things in Religion

… Think no more of any man you hear, when he goes from the Scripture, and when he errs, than you would think of Satan himself; except this, pity …

A Look and Its Lessons

Isaiah 51:1

… Infinite Jehovah! Alas for us that our first parents were not immune from temptation! Mother Eve, deceived by the serpent, took of the forbidden fruit and ate of …

Mr. Evil-Questioning Tried and Executed

2 Kings 5:12

… PROUD SELF and EVIL QUESTIONING are two of Satan’s firmest allies, and two of the chief destroyers of the souls of men. Both of these adversaries attacked …

The Sheep and Their Shepherd

John 10:27

… Perhaps you are living away from your parents and Christian friends, and you have had an extraordinary temptation, and you wish you could go home and tell your …

Hideous Discovery

Mark 7:20-23

… How often it happens that those young persons who have been most shut out from the world have become the readiest victims of temptation when the time has …

Retreat Impossible

Judges 11:35

… Whatever it costs, I am enlisted and will never desert." Sometimes the temptation is, "Come with me, young man, come with me, young woman"—to such-and-such …

Our Sanctuary

Jeremiah 17:12

… A glorious high throne, higher than the throne of Satan, higher than the heights of pride, higher than the loftiness of ambition, higher, even, than the Heaven of …

Ordered Steps

Psalm 119:133

… Pray this prayer, young man, if you want to be safe, "O Lord, order my steps in Your Word!" There is great temptation, nowadays, to take up with …

The Minister’s Fainting Fits

… Paul may be caught up to the third heaven, and hear unspeakable things, but a thorn in the flesh, a messenger of Satan to buffet him, must be …

Healed or Deluded? Which?

Jeremiah 8:11

… There is a flatterer in your own bosom, namely, proud Self! Another flatterer often crosses your path and is eager to destroy your soul—I mean Satan. If …

The Joy of Harvest

Isaiah 9:3

… Temptation might have led to sin, sin might have ripened into habit, habit might have gathered force until they became ringleaders in mischief—but they are washed, they …

Reasons For Parting With Sin

Isaiah 1:18

… Give me strength, I pray you, to overcome temptation and walk in the way of Your commandments. I want to be holy, even as You are holy. To …

Psalm 15

Psalm 15

… May I do nothing that is dishonourable and mean, nothing that cannot bear the light, and then I shall have little temptation to lying. I would endeavour for …

Rubbish

Nehemiah 4:10

… Eargate is choked with rubbish! How harder, still, it is to get at human hearts—for there Satan reigns as in his own palace—and takes care to …

Seeing Is Not Believing, But Believing Is Seeing

1 Peter 1:8

… And as our soul sees Him, first as an Infant of a span long, and then suffering all our infirmities and tempted in all points like as we …

Lessons on Divine Grace

1 Corinthians 15:10

… of God I am what I am," namely, after some strong and terrible temptation. Have you ever known what it is to feel some old lust which you …

The Hearing of Faith

Galatians 3:2

… If you have gone out to fight against a temptation in your own strength, have you ever returned a conqueror? It has been written of all other Believers …

The Rule of Grace

Luke 4:27

… Perhaps he had, once or twice, taken a little that was not his, but the temptation to which he had yielded was very strong and he had done …

Following Christ

John 21:22

… Even Satan spoke the truth for once when he said, "Skin for skin, yes, all that a man has will he give for his life." Let it be …

The Church Awakened

Ephesians 5:14

… He is always at it, day and night." There is no waste of time with Satan! If we could send the devil to sleep we might take a …

The Disowned

Matthew 7:21-23

… Did I not see Satan, as lightning, fall from Heaven while he spoke in the name of the Lord?" Suppose that did happen—it would not prove that …

Jesus the Way

John 14:6

… What shall we say then? Shall we continue in sin, that Grace may abound?This seems to be a very plausible temptation. It is one which frequently came …

Unknown Depths and Heights

Luke 23:34

… Why am I here? Because I would serve Satan—and God knows that it was a bitter service and what little sweet it had is all forgotten now …

Confession With The Mouth

Romans 10:10

… This confession will be very acceptable if it is made in the time of temptation. Young Joseph has his garment seized by his wanton mistress—his answer is …

Peter's Blunder—a Lesson for Ourselves

Acts 10:14

… It was a piece of impertinence for which he was well rebuked when the Master said, "Get you behind Me, Satan." Our Lord detected Satan endeavoring to work …

Psalm 56

Psalm 56

… may say, "Lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from the evil one." The more violent the attack of Satan the stronger our plea for deliverance. Verse …