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Temptation, Satan, spiritual warfare, and resisting sin
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Sown Among Thorns
Matthew 13:7
… Wherefore, watch and pray, lest temptation choke that which is good in you. Watch earnestly, for grace is a tender plant in a foreign soil, in an uncongenial …
SERMON • SERMON 1756Renewing Strength
Isaiah 40:31
… open to many injuries from sin and extremely likely to be overcome by temptation. Blessed is that man who is "strong in the Lord, and in the power …
SERMON • SERMON 1649Freshness
Job 29:20
… They think they are out of the way of temptation and so they believe that they are perfect—they also set up a standard and cut down everybody …
SERMONNonconformity
From: Metropolitan Tabernacle Pulpit Volume 7
… they died for the gospel of Jesus, and when tied to the stake and tempted by the fiends who bound them with the ofter of life, and honour …
SERMON • SERMON 1288Truly Eating the Flesh of Jesus
John 6:53-56
… Good soul, I know if he has really believed in Jesus, he will sweetly find out his mistake and his life will go on living under temptation and …
SERMON • SERMON 1700A Monument for the Dead, and a Voice to the Living
Romans 10:5-9
… out in their little painted perfection boats, are people who have had small temptation and little soul-trouble. They are generally gentlemen in good health, with regular incomes …
SERMON • SERMON 1752Mourners, Inquirers, Covenanters
Jeremiah 50:4
… live to become so false, so wicked as under stress of infirmity or temptation, even for a moment, to turn aside from You! Beloved Brothers and Sisters, take …
SERMON • SERMON 1829The Singular Origin of a Christian
Ephesians 2:10
… A gardener's business is healthful and interesting, but it offers no temptation to idleness, for every season has its demands—and if the work is not kept …
SERMON • SERMON 1909A Seasonable Exhortation
1 Peter 1:13
… vigorous resolve that they easily go to pieces if assailed by error or temptation. The teaching necessary for today is this—"Gird up the loins of your mind …
SERMON • SERMON 3424Meat Indeed, and Drink Indeed
John 6:55
… Beloved, Jesus Christ, in this sense, is meat. "He restores my soul." He makes up for the waste of temptation, for the wear and tear of care, for …
SERMON • SERMON 2209The Best Strengthening Medicine
Hebrews 11:34
… never used an oath—and he also noted that he never had a temptation to do so! I remark that the particular form of sin known as blasphemy …
SERMON • SERMON 955A Singular But Needful Question
John 5:6
… Dwelling here among the sons of men, not in a Paradise, but in the midst of obloquy, temptation, and suffering, yet was He a whole, sound Man. Sicknesses …
SERMON • SERMON 2523Abraham's Double Blessing
Genesis 12:2
… that endures to the end, so that you shall stand firm in every temptation and, at the last, shall enter into your rest and say at the end …
SERMON • SERMON 1788The Proof of Our Ministry
2 Corinthians 13:3
… I think I can faithfully say that there is holiness among you, but oh, watch and pray that you enter not into temptation! Let each one among you …
SERMON • SERMON 2280God's Handwriting Upon David
1 Chronicles 28:19
… and the midnight air Witnessed the fervor of Your prayer The desert Your temptation knew, Your conflict and Your victory, too"? Let none of us think that we …
SERMON • SERMON 1428The True Position of the Witness Within
1 John 5:10
… When the winds are out and the storms are loosed and temptation howls through the soul, we always fly to the Word of God and not to our …
SERMON • SERMON 2200The Covenant Promise of the Spirit
Ezekiel 36:27
… He works in them a watchfulness against temptation day by day. He works in them to wrestle against sin. Rather than sin, a Believer would die 10,000 …
SERMON • SERMON 2546A Message to the Glad and the Sad
Job 22:29
… to believe! He will help you to be gracious, to persevere, to resist temptation and to conquer sin if you will only trust Him! You are cast down …
SERMON • SERMON 1182A Singular Title and a Special Favor
Psalm 59:10
… even yet more frequently the blessed God of your mercy has forestalled the temptation and prevented the sin altogether! Look at David with his angry heart and his …
SERMON • SERMON 1697The Word of a King
Ecclesiastes 8:4
… The materials that will stand the fire of temptation, trial, death and the like, are not to be brought together by any word but the Word of the …
SERMON • SERMON 2450The Joy of Redemption
Isaiah 44:23
… THE BELIEVER IS PERFECTLY REDEEMED! On earth he was still the subject of temptation and he wrestled hard with inbred sins. But when death comes, he shall be …
SERMON • SERMON 1481The Red Heifer
Hebrews 9:13
… The will, more or less, yields the temptation and when the will does not yield, the imagination plays the traitor and the affections parley—and so betray the …
SERMON • SERMON 2995Very Singular
2 Samuel 17:23
… Have you, then, no care to be protected from temptation and from the dread storms of Almighty Wrath which are so soon to come? Can it be that …
SERMON • SERMON 1514The Key-Note of a Choice Sonnet
Luke 1:46
… name of the Lord, and that will be a death-blow to the temptation to pride. Mary had a specialty: no one else should be the mother of …
SERMON • SERMON 2364Poverty and Riches
2 Corinthians 8:9
… He is hungry, but it is a temptation of the Evil One which suggests to Him that He should turn stones into bread. He is thirsty and at …
SERMON • SERMON 558A Bundle of Myrrh
Solomon 1:13
… You who are sick this morning, sick with doubts and fears, you who are sick with temptation, you who struggle with an angry temper, or with the death …
SERMON • SERMON 2926The Love of Our Espousals
Jeremiah 2:2
… education was the fear of God—tenderly kept out of the way of temptation—fostered and nurtured in every good word and work. God remembers this. If some …
SERMON • SERMON 1922Concerning Death
Job 30:23
… I know it is so and yet in the very commonness of the truth there lies a temptation to overlook its personal application. We know this as though …
SERMON • SERMON 1881The Dying Thief in a New Light
Luke 23:40-42
… blessed work! What a host of troubles he escaped! What a world of temptation he missed! What an evil world he left! He was just born, like a …
SERMON • SERMON 1211The Hospital of Waiters Visited with the Gospel
John 5:8
… I am always being pulled by the ear by a temptation, or drawn the wrong way by evil companions." Now, my poor Friend, lie down before Jesus Christ …
SERMON • SERMON 855Everyday Usefulness
John 1:42
… Church would preach Jesus by their patience in suffering, by their endurance in temptation, by exhibiting in the household those Graces which adorn the Gospel of Jesus Christ …
SERMON • SERMON 1087The Hexapla Of Mystery
1 Timothy 3:16
… And they waited on the Redeemer in the desert of His temptation. One of their number strengthened Him in the garden. Another rolled away the stone from His …
SERMON • SERMON 1460The Meat and Drink of the New Nature
John 6:55
… born of God! The life in me will throw off the darts of temptation if it is eternal life. There remains nothing for it but to shake off …
SERMON • SERMON 2455A Cure for a Weak Heart
Psalm 31:24
… This weakness of heart is particularly felt in times of temptation. I have known Christian men who have had to work among ungodly companions and their spirits have …
SERMON • SERMON 1741"Let Not Your Heart Be Troubled"
John 14:1-4
… cannot but believe to be the disciples of Jesus Christ carried away by temptation, by fear of man or by the fashion of the times—so that Christ …
SERMON • SERMON 1586Holy Longings
Psalm 119:20
… Or he may be constrained by force of temptation to that which is wrong, yet his real self may rejoice in righteousness. A man may not be pronounced …
SERMON • SERMON 1638Men Without Heart, Sight, or Hearing
Deuteronomy 29:4
… They are ready enough to listen to the siren songs of temptation. And they bend a willing ear to the subtle deceit of the serpent, but they will …
SERMON • SERMON 1669Teaching for the Outer and Inner Circles
Mark 4:33
… for your security, too, for He that knows the Truth will triumph over temptation. He who has been taught of Christ can meet the objections of the ungodly …
SERMON • SERMON 2506God's Law in Man's Heart
Hebrews 8:10
… And though the devil may batter you, God will claim you as His own! Temptation and sin may assail you, but if the Law of the Lord is …
SERMON • SERMON 1399Am I My Brother's Keeper?
Genesis 4:9
… I remember years ago, when I labored to feel the responsibility of men's souls upon me, I became very depressed in spirit and the temptation arose out …