Christ, Out Life Ministries’ Scriptural Basis pt28 by Sylvia Pearce Programs 27 & |多

Christ, Out Life Ministries’ Scriptural Basis pt28 by Sylvia Pearce Programs 27 & 28 Temptation I1 Cor. 10:13—“No temptation is taken man but what is common to man” Heb. 2:18—“He himself hath suffered being tempted.” Heb. 4:15—“In all points tempted like as we are, yet without sin.” Heb. 5:8—“Yet learned he obedience by the things he suffered.” James 1:2—“Count it all joy when you are tempted.” James 1:14—“Man is tempted when he is drawn away by his own lust and entice.” James 1:15—“When lust has conceived.” The Last Adam, Jesus was driven/led (Mark 1:12 & Matt. 4:1) into the wilderness to be tempted by the devil. Yet He was without sin. I John 2:15-16 Lust of eye—personal aspiration Lust of the flesh –self gratification Pride of Life—Reputation worries, The Three Temptations of Christ in the Wilderness Matt. 4:1-4 On His Body 1. Stone into bread “Lust of the eye” (Lust for outer substance to satisfy inner need) On His Soul 2. Angles charge over you. “Lust of the flesh” (Lust for performance, Independent-self) On His Spirit 3. All kingdoms are yours “Pride of Life” (Lust for power and dominion) Temptation (James 1:14) II am Christ in my form. He/me has no evil desires. What redemptive purposes are you up to Lord? What is my word of faith concerning this? Spirit soul expression ( Strong Desire) (I feel lustful) Enticed by Satan’s lie. You are just you, and you ought not to have these feelings…try to keep yourself…change yourself…war against yourself…fight the devil. (Which gives the law/sin its hold on you.) Temptations are God’s Calling Cards and Springboards of Faith “Every man is tempted when he is drawn away by his own lust and enticed” (James 1:14). What about the areas of our, Christ, as us, life that doesn’t fit with Christ living. What about the many times that I am tempted and even succumb to the pressures of temptation and sin? Temptation is very troublesome to us and can be why some say that, the Christ-life doesn’t work.” I believe that exploring the subject will encourage many a weary Christians. We must start right off and say that temptation is not sin. So many of God’s people don’t know the difference between the two which causes most of the guilt we feel. I can remember a time my own life where I confessed every negative thought, and every negative thing that I said, as sin. I thought every human reaction was wrong. I wouldn’t even let myself be human, because somehow I thought that was not being Spiritual. Unknowingly, I was very much centered in on me, and that kind of attitude made me totally self-conscious. I was also unknowingly confusing every temptation as if it were sin. I had little to no understanding about temptation. Remember Jesus, the man-God was “tempted in everyway, yet without sin.” And “For in that He Himself hath suffered being tempted, he is able to help them that are tempted.” So, temptation is not sin, and as these scriptures say it causes us to suffer. Since temptation is not sin, then what is it? Like James says, temptation is a state where we respond to some outer stimuli which have its first stirrings from within us. The Bible clearly says, that “God tempts no man,” so the enticement is not coming from God, but from Satan. However, it starts from “our own lust.” Immediately everybody thinks that there it is we have lust in us, so you see, we do have an evil human nature. Well then Jesus must have had a evil human nature too. Oh, no that would be blasphemous. The point is that he did not have an evil human nature and truthfully neither do we. Although, he still had strong desires just like every other human being. But strong desires don’t make us have an evil nature—desire is an essential part of what makes us humans beings created in God’s image. For God himself is desire. Let’s look at the word, “LUST.” Webster says lust is “to have an intense or obsessive desire.” Others say it is “strong desire.” Why is a strong desire wrong? It isn’t, but we automatically think of strong desire as something sinful in itself. We will have to say that even Jesus had was tempted to lust. What? “You say,” not the Son of God! But the Bible clearly says that is what temptation is, “every man is tempted when he is drawn away by his own lust.” Jesus was a man, not just God, he was also fully man. Temptation is response to something stimulating me to desire it. It is a normal human reaction. Jesus had them, we have them, they are common to mankind (I Corinthians 10:13). But they are not sin. Let us think about our bodily reactions--if I were in a cold room, I would get chill bumps. If my finger got smashed, I say, “ouch,” these are normal human reactions. I don’t get condemn over these reactions, do I? That would be pretty silly. What I just described are bodily reactions, but on the other h

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