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I AM AN 80 YEAR OLD MALE, BORN AGAIN, CHRISTIAN WITH A LOVE FOR JESUS. I DO NOT GET OUT MUCH ANYMORE BUT FIND THAT TELLING PEOPLE ABOUT THE LOVE JESUS HAS FOR THEM IS NOT ONLY WHAT WE ARE SUPPOSED TO DO BUT SOMETHING THAT THE WORLD NEEDS.
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"DO YOU KNOW WHO THE TEMPTER IS?" BY DAVID MCMILLEN
THERE ARE SO MANY WAYS WE ARE TEMPTED AS WE GO ABOUT OUR DAILY LIVES AND A LOT OF TIMES WE DON'T EVEN KNOW IT. SIN STARTS IN THE MIND AND THE DEVIL WILL GIVE US THOUGHTS THAT WILL LEAD TO SIN. ALSO HE WILL HAVE SOMEONE SUGGEST SOMETHING THAT CAN LEAD TO SIN. MAYBE HE WILL PUT SOMETHING IN FRONT OF US TO TEMPT US. WHAT WE MUST NOT DO IS DWELL ON THOSE THINGS. DO THE SAME THING AS YOU WOULD IF YOU PUT SOMETHING IN YOUR MOUTH THAT WAS BAD.....SPIT IT OUT.
AND ONE VERY IMPORTANT THING IS, DON'T EVER THINK THAT GOD HAS TEMPTED YOU. THE BIBLE IS VERY SPECIFIC ABOUT THAT. JAMES 1:13-14 SAYS "LET NO MAN SAY WHEN HE IS TEMPTED, I AM TEMPTED OF GOD: FOR GOD CANNOT BE TEMPTED WITH EVIL, NEITHER TEMPTETH HE ANY MAN: BUT EVERY MAN IS TEMPTED WHEN HE IS DRAWN AWAY OF HIS OWN LUST AND ENTICED." IT IS PRETTY CLEAR THAT GOD IS NOT THE TEMPTER.
LET'S SEE WHO THE "TEMPTER" REALLY IS. IN MATTHEW 4:3, SATAN IS THE "TEMPTER" WHEN HE SAYS TO JESUS, "If thou be the Son of God, command that these stones be made bread." PAUL EVEN CALLS SATAN THE TEMPTER IN 1ST THESSALONIANS 3:5 WHERE IS SAYS "For this cause, when I could no longer forbear, I sent to know your faith, lest by some means the tempter have tempted you, and our labour be in vain."
SOME PEOPLE HAVE A PROBLEM WITH THE LORD'S PRAYER WHERE IT SAYS "LEAD US NOT INTO TEMPTATION". THIS IS A REQUEST FOR GUIDANCE SO THAT WE CAN BE DELIVERED FROM EVIL. GOD WOULD NO MORE LEAD US INTO TEMPTATION THAN HE WOULD WITHHOLD OUR DAILY BREAD. JAMES 4:2 SAYS WE HAVE NOT BECAUSE WE ASK NOT. BOTH "GIVE US OUR DAILY BREAD" AND "LEAD US NOT INTO TEMPTATION" ARE SIMPLY REQUESTS FOR WHAT HAS ALREADY BEEN PROVIDED FOR US. GOD LOVES US AND WANTS ONLY THE BEST FOR US.
SO, DON'T EVER THINK THAT GOD IS TEMPTING YOU. THE BIBLE IS VERY CLEAR ABOUT THIS. SATAN IS THE TEMPTER SO BLAME HIM FOR YOUR TEMPTATIONS OR BLAME YOURSELF IF YOU FALL INTO HIS LIES. JESUS TELLS US ABOUT HIM WHEN HE IS TALKING TO THE JEWS AND SAYS IN JOHN 8:44 "Ye are of your father the devil, and the lusts of your father ye will do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and abode not in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaketh a lie, he speaketh of his own: for he is a liar, and the father of it." THIS IS THE WAY HE GETS TO US SO DON'T BELIEVE HIM. RESIST HIM AND HE WILL FLEE FROM YOU.
GOD BLESS YOU ALL.
