resisting temptation

Things You Should Know About Temptation, Part 6

Things You Should Know About Temptation, Part 6

Half-truth is the same as lying. Genesis 2:16-17 And the Lord God commanded the man, saying, Of every tree of the garden thou mayest freely eat: 17But of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt not eat of it: for in the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die. […]

Things You Should Know About Temptation, Part 5

Things You Should Know About Temptation, Part 5

Temptation always comes on the hills of great accomplishments. Matthew 4:23 And Jesus went about all Galilee, teaching in their synagogues, and preaching the gospel of the kingdom, and healing all manner of sickness and all manner of disease among the people. On the hills of being tempted three times, and Jesus’ refusal to yield […]

Things You Should Know About Temptation, Part 4

Temptation starts when you are born again and continues until the day you die. Matthew 4:13 Then cometh Jesus from Galilee to Jordan unto John, to be baptized of him. Prior to being born again, Satan does not tempt man because he already has him. As the free moral agent God created man to be, […]

Things You Should Know About Temptation, Part 2

How to Handle Temptation Matthew 4:2 And when he had fasted forty days and forty nights, he was afterward an hungred. Jesus was led by the Spirit into the wilderness to be tested like the first Adam, who handed over His power and dominion to Satan, the tempter.   After Jesus had abstained from eating food […]

Things You Should Know About Temptation, Part I

Things You Should Know About Temptation, Part I

  Things You Should Know About Temptation, Part I Matthew 4:1 Then Jesus was led up by the Spirit into the wilderness to be tempted by the devil. It may seem strange that Jesus would be led by the Holy Spirit to be tempted. To be tempted in the Greek means to be soft; to […]