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Temptation
Temptation, Satan, spiritual warfare, and resisting sin
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God Incarnate, The End Of Fear
Luke 2:10
… I am so tempted." "Fear not," for you have not an High Priest which cannot be touched with a feeling of your infirmities, for He was tempted in …
SERMON • SERMON 1359Happiness—the Privilege and Duty of Christians
Deuteronomy 33:29
… overtaken and overthrown by temptation. He has rescued us from the renewed attacks of the old, corrupt Nature combined with the cunning of Satan—He has saved us …
SERMON • SERMON 428A Cure For Care
1 Peter 5:7
… but God who is faithful, who will not suffer you to be tempted above what you are able. But will with the temptation also make a way to …
SERMON • SERMON 1577Sin Subdued
Micah 7:19
… We can scarcely transact business in our own counting houses without being tempted. If we stay at home there is temptation there and if we go abroad it …
SERMON • SERMON 2966Resistance to Salvation
Mark 5:7
… Christ works life, Satan works death. Christ is Love, Satan is hate. Christ is Goodness, Satan is evil. Christ is Truth, Satan is falsehood. Christ is God and …
SERMON • SERMON 1736The King's Weighings
1 Samuel 2:3
… you can trust me! I am past temptation." Gray hairs should not talk such nonsense! You can still be tempted and your actions are still weighed as well …
SERMON • SERMON 224Samson Conquered
Judges 16:20-21
… behind me, Satan; I have more than all this which thou dost offer me; this world is mine, and worlds to come; I despise the temptation; I will …
SERMON • SERMON 3003A Vivid Contrast
John 7:53
… will go home to be tempted. It is a sad thing to go from the House of God to meet with temptation, yet that happens to many of …
SERMON • SERMON 1326Christ the Conqueror of Satan
Genesis 3:16
… As soon as he publicly came forward upon the stage of action, thirty years after, Satan met him foot to foot. You know the story of the temptation …
SERMON • SERMON 1830All Or None—or, Compromises Refused— a Sermon With Five Texts
Exodus 10:26
… push for full committal to Christ with everybody who is tempted to a compromise. "Oh, but," Satan will say, "be earnest, too. Yes, be earnest. Of course that …
SERMON • SERMON 3371Two Choice Benedictions
Numbers 6:23-27
… temptation, let this be your prayer, "Lead us not into temptation," and if you trust in God, you will pray, "Deliver us from evil." You will be tempted …
SERMON • SERMON 768A Prayer for the Church Militant
Psalm 28:9
… Or there may be some other besetting sin and you may be constantly tempted by it. Let us pray for such. And, again, some of God's people …
SERMON • SERMON 1560The Plain Man's Pathway To Peace
Matthew 9:27-30
… If you read, "Grace Abounding," you will find that, for five years or more, he was the subject of the most fearful despair—tempted by Satan, tempted by …
SERMON • SERMON 901The Upper Hand
Romans 6:14
… shalls!" There seems something grand in them. "Sin shall not." Ah, Satan may come with temptation, but when God says, "Sin shall not have dominion," it is as …
SERMON • SERMON 396Climbing the Mountain
Psalm 24:3
… Oh! dost thou not know there are troubles to come, and thou hast not endured them yet; there are attacks of Satan; there are temptations from without and …
SERMON • SERMON 842The Angelic Life
Matthew 22:30
… with any temptations from within, though once assailed by the great temptation from without by which Satan and his followers fell from happiness. They carry about with them …
SERMON • SERMON 2786The Soul's Best Food
Isaiah 55:2
… It helps to keep us out of temptation. I do not think a man is ever so likely to be tempted as when he has neglected to eat …
SERMON • SERMON 83Indwelling Sin
Job 40:3-4
… every sin that ever tempted me, if it were not that I had an enemy within. Those Diabolians within do more service to Satan than all the Diabolians …
SERMON • SERMON 2856Our Hiding Place
Isaiah 32:2
… There is no man living who can truly say, "I am secure against the devil's assaults." You may resolve as you please, but Satan is older and …
SERMON • SERMON 3115Sin and Grace
Romans 5:20
… The worst temptation in the world is not to be tempted at all. But when there is a strong temptation and your soul is fully aware of it …
SERMON • SERMON 416The Shield Of Faith
Ephesians 6:16
… Serve your Master zealously and diligently and let the Lord's blessing rest upon your labors, the Lord's blessing will entail Satan's curse, the smile of …
SERMON • SERMON 847Joyful Transformations
Isaiah 42:16
… haunt you! You are tempted to vices from which, by Divine Grace, you have been preserved, but towards which, as with a hurricane, Satan would whirl you! Your …
SERMON • SERMON 491Our Stronghold
Proverbs 18:10
… Or else you have had personal sickness—you have long lain on the bed of weariness, tossing to and fro, and then the temptation has come into your …
SERMON • SERMON 1363Sudden Sorrow
Jeremiah 4:20
… now finds himself to be human—being human, to be liable to temptation! Being tempted—to be ready to yield to sin. "I saw the tents of Cushan …
SERMON • SERMON 2132Christ Put On
Romans 13:14
… Say not in your heart, "I am a man of experience and therefore I can resist temptation which would crush the younger and greener folk. I have now …
SERMON • SERMON 1953A Testimony To Free and Sovereign Grace
Psalm 37:39
… As each temptation, like a dragon, threatens to swallow us up, we are saved from it. Our God is the God of salvations and unto Him belongs the …
SERMON • SERMON 1131Clearing the Road to Heaven
Isaiah 62:10
… Do not believe the suggestion of Satan, but come, and welcome! Mercy's gate is not shut. Mr. Bunyan escaped from that temptation by this excellent method—he …
SERMON • SERMON 464A Sermon For Gleaners
Ruth 2:15
… They may have prayer and meditation, but they have never been schooled by temptation. And if we are not much tempted ourselves, if we are not emptied from …
SERMON • SERMON 1694The Use of the Bow
2 Samuel 1:17
… not return to me." I beseech you do not fall under the temptation of Satan to cease from your daily activity—and especially from any holy service in …
SERMON • SERMON 1229Decision—Illustrated by the Case of Joshua
Joshua 24:15
… Satan tempts those who can be tempted, but when he finds men sufficiently resolved, there is a certain order of temptation with which he never assails them again …
SERMON • SERMON 542Paul—His Cloak And His Books
2 Timothy 4:13
… Our Savior was tempted of the devil, you will remember, when He was hungry, to turn stones into bread. That was a strong temptation—to apply miraculous powers …
SERMON • SERMON 3381The Broken Fence
Proverbs 24:30-32
… 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 …
SERMON • SERMON 3253Faith Hand in Hand With Fear
Psalm 56:3
… the prospect of being tempted again by him, we bow our knee to our great Father and we cry—"Lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from …
SERMON • SERMON 281The Saviour's Many Crowns
Revelation 19:12
… servants fight.” Have you never thought how through thirty years the world tempted Christ? That temptation of the devil in the wilderness was not the only one which …
SERMON • SERMON 1287Strengthening Words from the Savior's Lips
2 Corinthians 12:9
… the temptation came from a messenger of Satan, because the Lord Jesus has endured the same temptation, Himself, and knows how to succor them that are tempted. Moreover …
SERMON • SERMON 1152A Lesson from the Life of King Asa
2 Chronicles 16:9
… We shall need to watch against temptation so long as we are in this wilderness of sin. Only in Heaven are we out of gunshot of the devil …
SERMON • SERMON 330Reigning Grace
Romans 5:21
… But Divine Grace—come here and see what you can do! Grace speaks the word and says, "Get you hence, Satan— away, you fiends—let the man be …
COMMENTARYPsalm 73
Psalm 73
… That although we are tempted and brought even to the very point to perpetrate and do all mischief, yet he stays us and keeps us, that the temptation …
SERMON • SERMON 225Satan's Banquet
John 2:9-10
… First, we are to take a warning glance at the HOUSE OF FEASTING WHICH SATAN HATH BUILDED: for as wisdom hath builded her house, and hewn out her …
COMMENTARYPsalm 78
Psalm 78
… Thomas Froysel, in "Sermons concerning Grace and Temptation." 1678. Verse 41. Tempted God. This only expresses the fact that men act towards him as if he could be …