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Rev. Jonathan Mahtani, pastor of the Hope Protestant Reformed Church in Walker, Michigan Jesus said unto him, It is written again, Thou shalt not tempt the Lord thy God. Matthew 4:7 Take heed and harden not your heart, As did your fathers, nor depart From God to follow in their ways; For with co
b) Thus it was a tempting of God. In Scripture men are said to tempt God when they try God out whether He will really punish them! It is man playing with the Living God in Whose hands it is terrible to fall. Only men with hardened hearts do this latter consciously. Satan would have Jesus do it; woul
Consider how each of these helps guide the believer in the matter of sports and recreation: C. Tempting God is forbidden. (Matt. 4:7) The Devil told Jesus to throw himself off the pinnacle of the temple, assuring Jesus that God’s angels were watching over Him to keep Him, so that He would not eve
In every temptation there is, of course, a tempter. This tempter is Satan and the world in conjunction with the believer's flesh. When the world says to the faithful that they continue to openly confess the name of Christ on pain of death and when the urge of the flesh thereupon is to deny God and
James 1:13-15 "Let no man say, I am tempted of God!" You and I should never say that. It is sinful to do so. But a bit of soul searching reveals that we often do exactly that, whether wittingly or unwittingly. The occasion for saying that is that we have sinned, and we know it. It also bothers us. B
Such a temptation presents an occasion to sin. How can a temptation be a trial? When God Himself suffers us to be tempted. We must emphasize that God does not tempt anyone, He does not present an occasion to sin with the intention to cause sin. He is the holy God and despises all sin. James 1:13 re
Temptation is a timeless topic, one from which no one is exempt. Approximately 2,700 years ago, King Hezekiah, a godly king of Judah, was tempted to trust in the power of other nations to with- stand his enemies (Isa. 39). A little over 2,000 years have passed since Jesus was tempted in the wilderne