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No Temptation Too Difficult To Resist! - What? Help!
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03/27/05 05:10 PM
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quote:
1 Corinthians
10:13 There hath no temptation taken you but such as is common to man: but God [is] faithful, who will not suffer you to be tempted above that ye are able; but will with the temptation also make a way to escape, that ye may be able to bear [it].
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Re: No Temptation Too Difficult To Resist! - What? Help!
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03/27/05 05:17 PM
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To be honest, I find this promise to be very intimidating, if not insulting. I don't know about you, but there are times when certain temptations are so overwhelming that it feels like God has forgotten this promise, or worse, like He didn't mean it in the first place.
If it is true, that is, if God will not allow us to be tempted above His ability to empower us to resist it unto His honor and glory - then why do so many of us fail so often, and so easily? Is it really, truly possible to be successful every time we are tempted? Or, is this promise some kind of sick joke?
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Re: No Temptation Too Difficult To Resist! - What? Help!
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03/27/05 07:49 PM
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Quote: posted by Mike Lowe| If it is true, that is, if God will not allow us to be tempted above His ability to empower us to resist it unto His honor and glory - then why do so many of us fail so often, and so easily? |
Mike, one reason we fail, I think, is because we don’t believe it enough to claim the promise and put for the effort. Saying no to sin DOES require some effort on our part!
Jeff
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Re: No Temptation Too Difficult To Resist! - What? Help!
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03/27/05 09:37 PM
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Often it just takes a decision that you would rather honor God than sin.
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Re: No Temptation Too Difficult To Resist! - What? Help!
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03/29/05 03:28 AM
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Okay, but if resisting temptation simply requires the appropriate amount of effort on our part, assuming, of course, that our ability to do so is supplied by the Holy Spirit, then why is it necessary for God to regulate the intensity of temptation? That is, why must He ensure it isn't more than He can empower us to resist? The promise is, "I can do all things through Christ which strengtheneth me." Phil 4:13. "Nothing shall be impossible unto you." Mat 17:20. "For with God nothing shall be impossible." Luke 1:37. Do you see what I mean?
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Re: No Temptation Too Difficult To Resist! - What? Help!
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03/29/05 01:18 AM
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There hath no temptation taken you but such as is common to man:
God is not doing anything to the temptation to regulate it. He is offering grace sufficient to overcome it whatever it is. Where sin abounds, grace much more abounds. This is relevant to those that rely upon God for victory; he will not let them down, but will give them whatever is needed for victory.
If sin has power over one, it is because of failure to rely upon God for grace to overcome it.
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Re: No Temptation Too Difficult To Resist! - What? Help!
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03/29/05 02:09 AM
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Greetings Brother Mike,
We are learning to completely learn to be void of self and to become soley dependant on God. We each have a journey on the narrow path when we accept Christ Jesus as our Savior. God will allow trials and temptations so that we may learn to stand up before the time of trouble that such has never seen before comes along. We are in the Lord's army and we have much to learn in a very short time. quote:
What is temptation? It is the means by which those who claim to be the children of God are tested and tried. We read that God tempted Abraham, that He tempted the children of Israel. This means that He permitted circumstances to occur to test their faith and lead them to look to Him for help. God permits temptation to come to His people today that they may realize that He is their helper. If they draw nigh to Him when they are tempted, He strengthens them to meet the temptation. . . .
Temptations will pour in upon us, for by them we are to be tried during our probation. This is the proving of God, the revelation of our own hearts. There is no sin in having temptation, but sin comes in when temptation is yielded to. . . . Heavenly Places 251.2,3.
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Each one has his own battles to fight, his own Christian experience to gain, independent in some respects from any other soul; and God has lessons for each to gain for himself that no other one can gain for him. . . . Our heavenly Father measures and weighs every trial before He permits it to come upon the believer. He considers the circumstances and the strength of the one who is to stand under the proving and test of God, and He never permits the temptations to be greater than the capacity of resistance. If the soul is overborne, the person overpowered, this can never be charged to God, ... but the one tempted was not vigilant and prayerful and did not appropriate by faith the provisions God had abundantly in store for him. Christ never failed a believer in His hour of combat. The believer must claim the promise and meet the foe in the name of the Lord.... Our Higher Calling, 323.2.
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"then why do so many of us fail so often, and so easily? Is it really, truly possible to be successful every time we are tempted? Or, is this promise some kind of sick joke?"
Unfortunately not all will accept truth to live in them. Many will call on His name only.
Yes, it is truly possible to utterly and completely die self when we are tempted. And no, none of God's promises are ever a joke.
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Man is to make earnest efforts to overcome that which hinders him from attaining to perfection. But he is wholly dependent upon God for success. Human effort of itself is not sufficient. Without the aid of divine power it avails nothing. God works and man works. Resistance of temptation must come from man, who must draw his power from God. On the one side there is infinite wisdom, compassion, and power; on the other, weakness, sinfulness, absolute helplessness. Acts of the Apostles, 482.2
Your Sister in Christ Jesus,
Cheri Fritz
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Re: No Temptation Too Difficult To Resist! - What? Help!
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03/29/05 02:57 AM
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quote:
Is it really, truly possible to be successful every time we are tempted? Or, is this promise some kind of sick joke?
That's a pretty bad choice of words, Mike. God doesn't engage in "sick jokes."
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Re: No Temptation Too Difficult To Resist! - What? Help!
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03/29/05 04:14 AM
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John, if the promise is true then it's not a sick joke. But if the promise depends, in part, on our efforts to resist, then the promise is no better than our part of the equation, which makes the promise tenuous - doesn't it?
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Re: No Temptation Too Difficult To Resist! - What? Help!
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Does God and Satan work together to tempt us in such a way that it helps us grow as Christians? What's in it for the Devil? Besides, aren't we supposed to pray, "Lead us not into temptation"?
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