Temptation

The Broken Fence

… If you have a bit of wall built to protect the Sunday and then six times the distance left without a fence, I believe that Satan’s cattle …

The Arrows of the Bow Broken in Zion

Psalm 76:3

… Where the tempted young man overcomes the temptation and stands fast in the day of trial—THERE it is where suffering is endured with patience, where labor is …

Peter's Restoration

Luke 22:60-62

… Oh, that we may be kept from the assaults of Satan! "Lead us not into temptation" is a necessary prayer. But the next petition is specially noteworthy—"but …

The Fainting Warrior

Romans 7:24

… its fierce cohorts of temptation, such as the lust of the eyes and the pride of life. What a battle, when sin, Satan, and the world, make a …

Psalm 64

Psalm 64

… Thus Satan lets fly a temptation so secretly, that he is hardly suspected in the thing. Sometimes he useth a wife's tongue to do his errand; another …

Delivered On Sunday Morning, December 4, 1864,

2 Corinthians 6:2

… I say, as a Believer, for, alas, there is a temptation to make our faith a thing of the past. It is nearly sixteen years since I first …

Perseverance in Holiness

Jeremiah 32:40

… Neither does this perseverance of the saints come in by the removal of temptation. It is not said, "I will put them where they shall not be tempted …

Christ with the Keys of Death and Hell

Revelation 1:18

… Satan. He is to be bound for a thousand years, but Jesus shall hold the chain, for only our Immanuel could bind this old dragon. When temptation is …

Keeping the Soul Alive

Psalm 22:29

… Is there one Christian here who is never tempted? I was about to say I wish I could pursue his calling, but I think he cannot have looked …

Leaning On Our Beloved

Solomon 8:5

… are in danger and tempted on all sides—liable to sin for a thousand causes. O my Brethren, in this age of temptation, lean on the Beloved—He …

All-Sufficiency Magnified

Philippians 4:13

… poor aged woman who was sick, she remarked that oftentimes she was tempted by Satan. "And sometimes," she said, "I am a little afraid, but I do not …

The Serpent's Sentence

Genesis 3:14

… You think you understand the ways of Satan but you are mistaken. You have been tempted by him these 30 years and you believe your experience can unravel …

A Sermon for a Winter's Evening

John 18:18

… be tempted by a sinful pleasure or by a sinful shame. Lest we should be led astray, let us pray that we may not enter into temptation and …

The Eye—a Similitude

Psalm 17:8

… Lead me not into temptation. Do not suffer the events of my career or the incidents of my daily life to entangle me so that I shall be …

Psalm 59

Psalm 59

… Deliver me from temptation, uphold me in temptation, cleanse me from the result of temptation. The world, the flesh, the devil, and chiefly sin, these are our enemies …

Shaved and Shorn, But Not Beyond Hope

Judges 16:22

… Perhaps the extraordinary strength of his physical frame placed him under stronger temptation than is common to man—at any rate, he was peculiarly constituted and seemed more …

The Lambs And Their Shepherd

Isaiah 40:11

… assure you I had sooner suffer any temptation that the world or the flesh can bring than to be tempted of the devil. For when Apollyon meets Christian …

Mocked of the Soldiers

Matthew 27:29

… temptation, we are very apt to forget that temptation was really temptation, even to Him, and that it grieved His pure and holy Soul thus to be tempted …

One of the Master's Choice Sayings

Matthew 14:16

… but God is faithful, who will not suffer you to be tempted above that you are able; but will, with the temptation, also make a way to escape …

Jude's Doxology

… Sometimes He keeps temptation from us. At other times He allows a temptation to come to us that, by overcoming it, we may be the stronger to meet …

The Right Kind of Fear

Proverbs 28:14

… I may be tempted to sin, but I shall be able to resist the temptation." Take a good look at that man, so that you will know him …

Safe, Though Surrounded By Sin

Psalm 28:1

… In getting out of one temptation, you may soon get into another and, on the whole, probably the temptation that is troubling you most is the best that …

Intercessory Prayer

Job 42:10

… The ends in the case of Job were these, that Satan might be defeated, foiled with his own weapons, blasted in his hopes when he had everything his …

The Last Message for the Year

John 6:37

… we are so apt to fall! 'Lead us not into temptation,' but if we must be tempted"— 4. Deliver us from evil."If some good end is to …

Before Daybreak with Christ

Mark 1:35-39

… Remember how He prayed for Peter—supplicating for him before he came into danger? He said. "Simon, Simon, Satan has desired to have you." The enemy had only …

Hands Full of Honey

Judges 14:8

… You imagine that no one suffers as you do, whereas no temptation has happened unto you but such as is common to man—and God will, with the …

Christians Kept In Time And Glorified In Eternity

… What rapture will be ours! This will be Heaven, indeed, when sin shall be gone, Satan shut out, temptation gone forever! You shall have a joy of which …

My Hourly Prayer

Psalm 119:117

… I have noticed that more men sin without temptation than with it and that the heaviest falls occur upon perfectly level road where there does not seem to …

Christ Asleep in the Vessel

Mark 4:38

… When our Lord took ship the weather appears to have been very fair and many little boats which scarcely would have tempted the sea had its surface been …

Presumptuous Sins

Psalm 19:13

… A man, again, who is suddenly tempted and surprised into a sin which is not his habit, but which he commits through the force of some strong temptation …

Good Cheer for Many That Fear

Isaiah 35:4

… This is an old temptation that Satan often casts in the way of godly people. You remember how John Bunyan represents Apollyon as charging poor Christian with being …

Driving Out the Canaanites and Their Iron Chariots

Joshua 17:18

… You would never be tempted to waste your money—for you love it too much. Extravagance is not in your line. But you may as surely be ruined …

Peter's Shortest Prayer

Matthew 14:30

… And lead us not into temptation, [See Sermon #1402, Volume 24—"LEAD US NOT INTO TEMPTATION".] but deliver us from evil: for Yours is the kingdom and the …

A Painful and Puzzling Question

Mark 4:40

… faithful, who will not suffer you to be tempted above that you are able; but will, with the temptation, also make a way to escape, that you may …

A Desperate Case—How to Meet It

Matthew 17:19-21

… They love high doctrine; they will hear nothing else but it; but then their Sunday, if there is a temptation which comes across their path, will be spent …

Our Compassionate High Priest

Hebrews 5:2

… on well—when it is not! Be glad if you have been tempted. Remember that temptation is one of the best books in the minister's library. To …

Christ's Curate In Decapolis

Mark 5:17-19

… If you were not lukewarm when you served Satan, be not lukewarm, now that you have come to serve Christ! There are some of us here who might …

Patient Job and the Baffled Enemy

Job 1:22

… THAT is to say, in all this trial and under all this temptation, Job kept right with God. During all the losses of his estate and the deaths …

Standing and Singing

Psalm 26:12

… When a person is extremely poor, he may be tempted to steal. If he should be able to overcome that, he will be tempted to envy and may …

A Boundless Benediction

Genesis 49:25

… tried and separated, but he was very severely tempted. I need not do more than just allude to his temptation in the house of Potiphar. For so young …