Tune and Prepare!

Puritan John Flavel identified six arguments that Satan uses to tempt us. together with six model responses. 1 Spot the voice of temptation in your life and identify how you should respond. You might like to ask two people to read it aloud as a dialogue. Argument 1: The Pleasure of Sin • Temptation: Look at my smiling face and listen to my charming voice. Here is pleasure to be enjoyed. Who can stay away from such delights? • Response: The pleasures of sin are real but so are the pangs of conscience and the flames of hell. The pleasures of sin are real but pleasing God is much sweeter. Argument 2: The Secrecy of Sin • Temptation: This sin will never disgrace you in public because no one will ever find out. • Response: Can I find somewhere God is not present for me to sin? Argument 3: The Profit of Sin • Temptation: If you just stretch your conscience a little, you'll gain so much. This is your opportunity. • Response: What do I benefit if...

Spot the voice of the Temptation A puritán John Flavel hat érvet sorolt fel, amelyeket a Sátán használ arra, hogy megkísértsen minket, és ehhez hat példaértékű választ is megadott. 1 Ismerd fel a Kísértő hangját. Fedezd fel az életedben felbukkanó kísértéseket, és gondold át, hogyan érdemes reagálnod rájuk. Érdemes kipróbálni és jó gyakorlat lehet : kérj meg két embert, hogy olvassák fel hangosan a szöveget párbeszéd formájában. 1. érv: A bűn öröme • Kísértés: Nézd meg mosolygós arcomat, és hallgasd meg elbűvölő hangom. Itt van az öröm élvezete. Ki tudna ellenállni ilyen élvezeteknek? Válasz: A bűn örömei valódiak, de a lelkiismeret furdalása és a pokol tüzének lángjai is azok. A bűn örömei valódiak, de Istennek tetszeni sokkal édesebb. 2. érv: Ha a bűn titkos • A kísértés: Ez a bűn soha nem fog nyilvánosan megszégyeníteni, mert senki sem fogja megtudni. • Válasz: Találhatok-e olyan helyet, ahol Isten nincs jelen, hogy ott vétkezzek? 3. érv:...

by Andrew Wilson 8 divine names Hebrew terms for God appear across the Old Testament. The prophet Isaiah brings them all together. If you were a child of Christian parents in the 1980s or 1990s, there is a decent chance that at some point you memorized the Hebrew names for God. Like Jehovah Jireh, which means “the Lord will provide” (Gen. 22:14). Or Jehovah Rapha: “The Lord heals” (Ex. 15:26). Or Jehovah Nissi: “The Lord is my banner” (17:15). There are eight such names altogether. (Besides the examples from Genesis and Exodus, they appear in Leviticus 20:8, Judges 6:24, Psalm 23:1, Jeremiah 23:6, and Ezekiel 48:35.) Learning these names—and in my case singing songs about them (with gradually accelerating Jewish melodies)—was just something we all did. Ever since, I have been unable to read the passages where Scripture introduces them without thinking of the names themselves, the songs they inspired, and the stories that gave them meaning. Clearly they made qu...

Jesus both taught and lived out meekness Adrian Rogers Jesus harnessed the “Sons of Thunder” Brothers James and John were angered at the people in a Samaritan village that refused hospitality to Jesus: “And when His disciples James and John saw this, they said, ‘Lord, do You want us to command fire to come down from heaven and consume them, just as Elijah did?’ But He turned and rebuked them, and said, ‘You do not know what manner of spirit you are of. For the Son of Man did not come to destroy men’s lives but to save them’” (Luke 9:54-56). Jesus entered Jerusalem on a colt Had Jesus chosen to ride into Jerusalem on a war horse, He would have been coming to save one race (the Jews) from domination by another (the Romans) …for a time. His choice of a lowly colt, the foal of a donkey, was appropriate to His mission to save the entire world from sin…for eternity. (Read Matthew 21:1-5.) Worth noting, this was an animal that had never been ridden before. Anyone else t...