Temptation

Reasons for a Singular Question

Mark 10:51

… Or, is it that you want to be delivered from a fierce temptation? Then, pray for it. Or, is it that you want faith in Christ? Then pray …

Dressing In The Morning

Romans 13:11-14

… Thus he is made impervious to the shafts of the enemy and amid the darts of temptation or the arrows of slander he may abide unharmed! The Lord …

Some Marks of God's People

Psalm 68:28

… At my time of life, I am quite past temptation." My old friend stopped and said, "I was going to let you have that 50 pounds but, as …

Fearing and Hoping

Psalm 147:11

… tell us that "handsome is that handsome does." But still, there is the temptation in a man who finds himself healthy, vigorous and strong—the personification of power …

Sermons From Saintly Deathbeds No. 783

Genesis 49:33

… He was beset with a temptation which seemed a strange one to trouble him, namely, a temptation to self-righteousness. He had always denounced all trust in works …

Daniel's Undaunted Courage

Daniel 6:10

… Though they bade fair in starting in the race of life to win the prize, they were tempted to turn aside to gather the golden apples and so …

A Good Soldier Of Jesus Christ

2 Timothy 2:2

… They only need sufficient temptation and they readily become cowardly, idle, useless and worthless. But he is the good soldier who is bravest of the brave, courageous at …

Sunshine in the Heart

Psalms 37:4

… I would wish to be perfect, to be free from every sin, from every imperfection, from all self, from all temptation, from all love of the world, from …

What the Farm Laborers Can Do and What They Cannot Do

Mark 4:26-29

… is so depraved that it will naturally bring forth evil in abundance and Satan is quite sure not to let it lie without a sowing of evil seed …

A Savior Such As You Need

Hebrews 10:15-18

… But when temptation attacked you, what help could mere moral essays afford you? What strength to resist sin did you find in your belief in the excellence of …

Mature Faith—Illustrated By Abraham's Offering Up Isaac

Genesis 22:2

… First notice the submission of Abraham under this temptation. His submission, I say, because you will observe that there is no record kept of any answer which Abraham …

Redeemed Souls Freed From Fear

… therefore I will take thee out of the meshes of the net of temptation, and lead thee through the maze of trial; I will bring the blind by …

Personal Service

Psalm 116:16

… We go to our chambers and bend our knees, and Satan whispers some word of self-satisfaction to us, because we have some project on our soul, some …

The Work of the Holy Spirit

Galatians 3:3

… without him we can do nothing, yet as a man I find myself tempted to deny my own preachings, not in my words, but to deny them in …

Where Can We Find Anecdotes and Illustrations?

… How soft are pussy’s pads, and yet, in a moment, if she is angered, how sharp will be her claws! How like to temptation, soft and gentle …

A Free Salvation

Isaiah 55:1

… Do you want something to make you stand steadfast in the midst of temptation? In the gospel there is that that can make you immovable, always abounding in …

Samuel—an Example of Intercession

1 Samuel 12:23

… The practical lesson of this is that when you are tempted to cease from pleading for certain persons, you must not yield to the suggestion. They have ridiculed …

Lecture IV: Where Can We Find Anecdotes And Illustrations?

… How soft are pussy's pads, and yet, in a moment, if she is angered, how sharp will be her claws! How like to temptation, soft and gentle …

Christ—Our Substitute

2 Corinthians 5:21

… the other; but he was replete in everything that was virtuous and good. Tempted he was, it is true, but sinned he never. The whirlwind came from he …

The Wounds of Jesus

Luke 24:40

… I was tempted in all ways like as you are. Look here! there are the marks—there are the marks. They are not only tokens of my love …

Psalm 38

Psalm 38

… It is a bold attempt to ding Satan out of his nest. If we conform us to the men of this world we find peace with them; they …

Simeon's Swan Song

Luke 2:29

… And yet, perhaps, you are tempted at times to think that you must be this, or you must do that, or you must feel the other, or else …

Regeneration

John 3:3

… them answering, “No! Once we fought the dragon and expelled him because he tempted us to sin; we must not and we will not, have the wicked here …

Fragrant Spices From the Mountains of Myrrh

… He doth in us? O surprising truth! Christ Jesus rejoices over His poor, tempted, tried, and erring people. IV. It is not to be forgotten that sometimes the …

The Heavan of Heavan

Revelation 22:4

… But up yonder they not only do not sin, but they cannot sin—they are not tempted, for there is no space for the Tempter to work upon …

Believing With The Heart

Romans 10:10

… In obedience, sanctified wholly to His work, and although, "tempted in all points like as we are, yet without sin." Faith delights to admire and adore Him in …

The Fullness and the Filling

John 1:16

… He is not such a High Priest as cannot be touched with a feeling of our infirmities, but He was tempted in all points like as we are …

The Only Road

John 14:6

… that He does not judge us too severely, that He knows we are tempted a great deal—that we have strong passions and, therefore, He winks at it …

Prompt Obedience

Psalm 18:44

… I do not say that you will not be tempted to sin until you die, but there will be no sin that you will love, there will be …

A Mighty Saviour

Isaiah 63:1

… Whenever I get on this subject I am tempted to tell a story; and though I have told it times enough in the hearing of many of you …

Some Reminiscences of Foreign Travel

… I am apt—I hope I may be pardoned,—to make little digressive journeys into the side paths and meadows of memory, tempted by the many forget-me …

How God Condemned Sin

Romans 8:3

… He was to all intents and purposes like ourselves, tempted in all points like as we are, though without sin. He was with all our sinless infirmities, with …

Psalm 41

Psalm 41

… If Satan's buffeting come, this is a helmet of proof; if Satan's darts fly out, this is a shield to quench them; if floods of crosses …

On the Choice of a Text

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

Psalm 118

Psalm 118

… Now, this is true of many a tried child of God who has been wounded by Satan, by the world, by temptation, by affliction; the sword has entered …

Growth in Faith

Luke 17:5

… He would have us be certain that He, Himself, was tempted in all points like as we are. With equal certainty would He have us to know that …

Faith's Way of Approach

Romans 10:17

… they were stoned, they were sawn asunder, were tempted, were slain with the sword: they wandered about in sheepskins and goatskins, being destitute, afflicted, tormented; (of whom the …

The Multitude Before the Throne

Revelation 7:9

… he had seen the twelve tribes pass before him, he might have been tempted to say, "It is enough! There is a remnant according to the election of …

Love and Jealousy

Solomon 8:6

… death if it cannot bear this? If any of you have been sorely tempted to do an unholy thing to get out of your pecuniary embarrassments, ask yourselves …

Our Leader Through the Darkness

Isaiah 50:10

… I have hinted at that already. "We have not an High Priest who cannot be touched with the feeling of our infirmities, but was in all points tempted …