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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...

David Guzik – Enduringword.com ..the Rabshakeh said to them (Judah), “Say to Hezekiah, ‘Thus says the great king, the king of Assyria: On what do you rest this trust of yours? Do you think that mere words are strategy and power for war? In whom do you now trust, that you have rebelled against me? Behold, you are trusting in Egypt, that broken reed of a staff, which will pierce the hand of any man who leans on it. Such is Pharaoh king of Egypt to all who trust in him...‘” Isaiah 36:4-6 Isaiah chapter 36 and 37 describes the Lord's work against the Syrian threat.. All these things happened during the reign of the godly king Hezekiah in Judah 700 BC. ... We can see the ugly arrogance of the Israel's enemies, and the raising despair in the hearts of the people and leaders of Judah. ... the Rabshakeh was not a name but a title of a field commander of the Syrian army. He was there to represent the Syrian king. He challenged the servants of king Hez...