Temptation

Morning, November 25

Lu 4:18

… say to me, “Captive, I have delivered thee,” and it is done forever. Satan may plot to enslave us, but if the Lord be on our side, whom …

Evening, June 13

Pr 30:8

… as regards his experience in holiness, and communion with Jesus in this life. Satan does not often attack a Christian who is living near to God. It is …

Morning, May 19

Ec 10:7

… See how the servile sons of Satan lord it in the earth! What a high horse they ride! How they lift up their horn on high! Haman is …

Psalm 70

Psalm 70

… Make haste, for I am poor and low; And Satan mocks my prayers and tears; O God, in mercy be not slow, But snatch me from my horrid …

Spring

Isaiah 61:11

… The gladsome, healthful spring time Keep heart, it comes now." Do not suffer Satan to get an advantage over you by saying, "God has forsaken us. We shall …

The High Rock

Psalm 61:2

… If he should urge you to forsake the Mercy Seat, say to him, "Get behind me, Satan." If he should say that you have sinned too much to …

A Strange Yet Gracious Choice

Psalm 135:4

… You remember how, when Joshua, the High Priest, was standing before the angel of the Lord, and Satan was standing at his right hand to resist him, the …

Sihon and Og, or Mercies in Detail

Psalm 136:17-22

… Christ, by His death, has broken the power of Satan, but Satan still holds sway, to a great extent, over the sons of men. As the Gospel spreads …

The Desire of the Soul in Spiritual Darkness

Isaiah 26:9

… Better to be a child of God in poverty than a child of Satan in riches. Cheer up, then, thou downcast spirit, if this be thy trial. Remember …

Wheat in the Barn

Matthew 13:30

… The seed of the serpent, fathered by Satan, is thus separated from the seed of the Kingdom, owned by Jesus, the promised Deliverer. This is the one distinction …

A Basket of Summer Fruit

Amos 8:1-2

… for God, but you are become a bruiser of sycamore fruit for Satan; helping Satan to ripen the fruit in his own diabolical garden. I speak to some …

A New Order of Priests and Levites

Isaiah 66:21

… In their prayers they have seemed to take hold of the pillars of the temple of Satan, and pull it down upon their enemies; they have been so …

Our Lord's Trial before the Sanhedrin

Mark 14:64

… s elect?" If Satan should appear as the accuser of the Brethren, he will be met by the voice, "The Lord rebuke you, O Satan, even the Lord …

The Christian's Service and Honor

John 12:26

… He who will not obey Jesus, obeys a tyrant master called Satan, or worse still, himself, for, after all, the greatest tyrant to a man is his own …

A Simple Remedy

Isaiah 53:5

… To inoculate the parent stock with evil was the great design of Satan, for he knew that this would work the worst conceivable ill to God's creatures …

Contention Ended and Grace Reigning

Isaiah 57:16-18

… But He does not do this with poor, weak minds which are rendered still weaker by the assaults of Satan and their inward fears. "He gathers the lambs …

Underneath

Deuteronomy 33:27

… The people of God must and shall be safe! Satan may cast them down, but God shall save them before they fall into Hell. Let us walk carefully …

The Child Of Light Walking In Darkness

Isaiah 50:10

… What is worse, he sometimes questions the Truth of God which he has received and doubts the very ground on which his feet are resting! Satan will come …

A Word for the Persecuted

1 Samuel 20:10

… Running the gauntlet on board ship is not worse than attempting to be friends with Christ and Satan at the same time. I believe many a professing woman …

Israel in Egypt

Revelation 15:3

… The glorious overthrow of Pharaoh in the Red Sea shadowed forth the total destruction of Satan and all his host in the day of the great battle of …

Freedom At Once and Forever

Isaiah 61:1

… So, in a moment, while I am speaking, the Lord can save you! In an instant, you slaves of sin and Satan, He can make you free! It …

The True Gospel Is No Hidden Gospel

2 Corinthians 4:3

… He says that Satan, the god of this world, has blinded his mind. What a thought it is that Satan should set up to be God! Christ is …

A String Of Pearls

1 Peter 1:3-5

… Oh, the glory of complete victory over Satan's arts, and Satan's strength! He shall be defeated all along the line! He shall gain nothing by all …

Seeking For Jesus

John 6:24

… At this hour, too, to make confusion more confounded, Satan is quite sure to assail the soul with his diabolical insinuations and suggestions, with strong temptations and despairing …

The Last Year at Waterbeach and Cambridge

… That tower, Thy grace, immanuel! When hell, enraged, lifts up her roar, When Satan stops my path before, When fiends rejoice, and wait my end, When legion’d …

What God Cannot Do!

Titus 1:2

… As it was a lie which first subjugated the world to Satan's influences, so it is by lies that he secures his throne. Among the heathen his …

Kicking Against The Pricks

Acts 9:5

… Mary Woolnoth, telling of the mighty Grace of God? Ah, but the Lord can thus get a double victory over Satan, not merely by capturing Satan's best …

Fire—the Need of the Times

Luke 12:49

… Stop," he says, "I must use my best endeavors to stop this invasion of my kingdom." Straightway Satan comes to do his best or his worst to hinder …

Abram And The Ravenous Birds

Genesis 15:11

… First, there are wicked thoughts—the sons of Satan. These respect no sacred places. The sanctity of our closet has been violated with thoughts of lust—the dignity …

Vessels Of Mercy—A Sermon Of Self-Examination

Romans 9:23

… Had the Lord left you to become all that your evil nature and Satan could have made you, you could not have murmured. If He had permitted you …

Mr. Spurgeon as a Literary Man

… Perhaps there is a very learned man sitting over yonder, and the temptation to the preacher is to say something that shall make him feel that the minister …

The Church—Conservative And Aggressive

1 Timothy 3:15

… Some of you, not long ago, were the servants of sin and Satan—you were at a distance from God—and you loved that distance well! Could we …

Characteristics of Faith

John 4:48

… You know you will be shut out of heaven!" Or, when the man thinks he has got an answer to prayer, then Satan says, "You need not pray …

Building “Our Holy and Beautiful House”

… I cannot, however, resist the temptation of saying a few words on a topic which you may think far remote from the object of the meeting. The times …

The Great Catastrophe at the Surrey Gardens Music Hall

… It is not wrestling with Satan in his strongholds, — to use the old earnest Puritan language ; — but entering into a very cowardly truce and alliance with the world …

Under His Shadow

… never venture forth to answer for themselves, or to brave the accusations of Satan. As with sin, so with sorrow of every sort: the Lord is the Rock …

Enquirers and Converts

… That was simply his conscience and Satan together keeping him away from Christ. When he was saved, it was not by his deep feelings ; it was by his …

Psalm 109

Psalm 109

… in all Satan's armoury there are no worse weapons than deceitful tongues. To have a reputation, over which we have watched with daily care, suddenly bespattered with …

False Professors Solemnly Warned

Philippians 3:18-19

… It is when Satan makes hypocrites that he brings the great battering ram against the wall. “Your lives are not consistent”—ah! that is the greatest battering ram …

Light at Evening Time

Zechariah 14:7

… When Satan once gets the upper hand of the spirit, he neither wants strength, nor will, nor malice, to torment it. Hard is that man’s lot, that …