Temptation
Temptation
God cannot be the subject of - Jas 1:13
Does not come from God - Jas 1:13
COMES FROM
The devil is the author of - 1Ch 21:1; Mt 4:1; Joh 13:2; 1Th 3:5
Evil associates, the instruments of - Pr 1:10; 7:6; 16:29
OFTEN ARISES THROUGH
To distrust of God's providence - Mt 4:3
To presumption - Mt 4:6
To worshipping the god of this world - Mt 4:9
Often strengthened by the perversion of God's word - Mt 4:6
PERMITTED AS A TRIAL OF
Always conformable to the nature of man - 1Co 10:13
Often ends in sin and perdition - 1Ti 6:9; Jas 1:15
CHRIST
- Endured, from the devil
- Mr 1:13 - Endured, from the wicked
- Mt 16:1; 22:18; Lu 10:25 - Resisted by the word of God
- Mt 4:4,7,10 - Overcame
- Mt 4:11 - Sympathises with those under
- Heb 4:15 - Is able to help those under
- Heb 2:18 - Intercedes for his people under
- Lu 22:31,32; Joh 17:15
God will not suffer saints to be exposed to, beyond their powers to bear - 1Co 10:13
God will make a way for saints to escape out of - 1Co 10:13
God enables the saints to bear - 1Co 10:13
God knows how to deliver saints out of - 2Pe 2:9
Christ keeps faithful saints from the hour of - Re 3:10
Saints may be in heaviness through - 1Pe 1:6
SAINTS SHOULD
- Resist, in faith
- Eph 6:16; 1Pe 5:9 - Watch against
- Mt 26:41; 1Pe 5:8 - Pray to be kept from
- Mt 6:13; 26:41 - Not to occasion, to others
- Ro 14:13 - Restore those overcome by
- Ga 6:1 - Avoid the way of
- Pr 4:14,15
The devil will renew - Lu 4:13
Has strength through the weakness of the flesh - Mt 26:41
Mere professors fall away in time of - Lu 8:13
Blessedness of those who meet and overcome - Jas 1:2-4,12
Exemplified