"Would you betray the Son of Man with a kiss?"
Giotto di Bondone, a thirteenth century Italian artist, here depicts the epic scene of Christ's betrayal.
Showing posts with label Temptation. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Temptation. Show all posts
Monday, June 13, 2011
Monday, February 28, 2011
A Call to My Peers and I
"Young men, "flee fornication" (1 Corinthians 6:18) if you love life.
"Let no man deceive you with vain words: for because of these things cometh the wrath of God upon the children of disobedience." Flee the occasions of it, the company of those who might draw you into it, the places where you might be tempted to it. Read what our Lord says about it in Matthew 5:28. Be like holy Job: "Make a covenant with your eyes." (Job 31:1) Flee talking of it. It is one of the things that ought not so much as to be named. You cannot taste sin and not be defiled. Flee the thoughts of it; resist them, mortify them, pray against them, make any sacrifice rather than give way. Imagination is the hotbed where this sin is too often hatched. Guard your thoughts, and there is little fear about your deeds."
- John Charles Ryle
"Let no man deceive you with vain words: for because of these things cometh the wrath of God upon the children of disobedience." Flee the occasions of it, the company of those who might draw you into it, the places where you might be tempted to it. Read what our Lord says about it in Matthew 5:28. Be like holy Job: "Make a covenant with your eyes." (Job 31:1) Flee talking of it. It is one of the things that ought not so much as to be named. You cannot taste sin and not be defiled. Flee the thoughts of it; resist them, mortify them, pray against them, make any sacrifice rather than give way. Imagination is the hotbed where this sin is too often hatched. Guard your thoughts, and there is little fear about your deeds."
- John Charles Ryle
Thursday, February 17, 2011
On Temptation
No temptation has overtaken you
that is not common to man.
God is faithful,
and he will not let you be tempted beyond your ability,
but with the temptation he will also provide the way of escape,
that you may be able to endure it.
1 Corinthians 10:13
This text is a needed encouragement in the times of temptation of God's faithfulness to those who trust in Jesus.
Charles Spurgeon puts that ol' English preacher spin on it:
"It may help such a person if I remind him that there is no sin in being tempted. The sin is that of the tempter, not of the tempted. If you resist the temptation, there is something praiseworthy about your action. There is nothing praiseworthy about the temptation; that is evil, and only evil; but you did not tempt yourself, and he that tempted [you] must bear the blame of the temptation. You are evidently not blameworthy for thoughts that grieve you; they may prove that there is sin still remanining in you, but there is no sin in your being tempted. The sin is in your yielding to the temptation, and blessed shall you be if you can stand out against it. If you can overcome it, if your spirit does not yield to it, you shall even be blessed through it. "Blessed is the man that endureth temptation." There is a blessedness even in the temptation, and though for the present it seemeth not to be joyous, but grievous, nevertheless, afterward, it yieldeth blessed fruit to those who are exercised thereby.
C.H. Spurgeon Metropolitan Tabernacle, Newington (Thursday Evening September 27th, 1883).
that is not common to man.
God is faithful,
and he will not let you be tempted beyond your ability,
but with the temptation he will also provide the way of escape,
that you may be able to endure it.
1 Corinthians 10:13
This text is a needed encouragement in the times of temptation of God's faithfulness to those who trust in Jesus.
Charles Spurgeon puts that ol' English preacher spin on it:
"It may help such a person if I remind him that there is no sin in being tempted. The sin is that of the tempter, not of the tempted. If you resist the temptation, there is something praiseworthy about your action. There is nothing praiseworthy about the temptation; that is evil, and only evil; but you did not tempt yourself, and he that tempted [you] must bear the blame of the temptation. You are evidently not blameworthy for thoughts that grieve you; they may prove that there is sin still remanining in you, but there is no sin in your being tempted. The sin is in your yielding to the temptation, and blessed shall you be if you can stand out against it. If you can overcome it, if your spirit does not yield to it, you shall even be blessed through it. "Blessed is the man that endureth temptation." There is a blessedness even in the temptation, and though for the present it seemeth not to be joyous, but grievous, nevertheless, afterward, it yieldeth blessed fruit to those who are exercised thereby.
C.H. Spurgeon Metropolitan Tabernacle, Newington (Thursday Evening September 27th, 1883).
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