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*/Four Principles for Life/*

*1 Corinthians 10:13** *

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Principle Number One –    Remember Our Position

Principle Number Two –    Remember Our Provider

Principle Number Three – Remember Our Promise

Principle Number Four –    Remember Our Prospect

 

Principle Number One –    Remember Our Position

 

13No temptation has overtaken you but such as is common to man;

 

*James 1:2 - 4** (**NASB**) *2Consider it all joy, my brethren, when you encounter various trials,  3knowing that the testing of your faith produces endurance.

4And let endurance have /its/ perfect result, so that you may be perfect and complete, lacking in nothing.

*James 1:12** (**NASB**) *12Blessed is a man who perseveres under trial; for once he has been approved, he will receive the crown of life which /the Lord/ has promised to those who love Him. 

*Revelation 3:10** (**NASB**) *10‘Because you have kept the word of My perseverance, I also will keep you from the hour of testing, that /hour/ which is about to come upon the whole world, to test those who dwell on the earth.

you,” but such as is “common to man;” such as you might

reasonably expect, if you considered /what you are; /a sinner born to die; a sinful inhabitant of a mortal body, liable to numberless inward and outward suffering,” — and /where you are; /in a shattered, disordered world, surrounded by evil men, and evil spirits.

Consider this, and you will not repine at the common but, the general condition of humanity.

“Such as is suited to the nature and circumstances of man; such as every man may reasonably expect, if he considers the nature of his body and his soul, and his situation in the present world.”

Even the Son of God was “tempted in all things as we are” \\ *Hebrews 4:15 (NASB) *15For we do not have a high priest who cannot sympathize with our weaknesses, but One who has been tempted in all things as /we are, yet/ without sin.

and because of that “He is able to come to the aid of those who are tempted”  Hebrews 2:18  18For since He Himself was tempted in that which He has suffered, He is able to come to the aid of those who are tempted.

No one, not even Satan, can make us sin.

He cannot even make an unbeliever sin.

No temptation is inherently stronger than our spiritual resources.

People sin because they willingly sin.

CHOICE

 

Temptation - a putting to /proof - /tendency to induce them to forsake their allegiance to their Lord  VIDEO

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Taken/ - /to /get/ /hold/ of - to take with the hand, lay hold of, any person or thing in order to use it

 

They were such as human nature had been often subjected to, and such as man had often contended with successfully.

The “design” of the apostle is to comfort the Corinthians, and to keep their minds from despondency.

He had portrayed their danger; he had shown them how others had fallen; and they might be led to suppose that in such circumstances they could not be secure.

He therefore tells them that they might still be safe, for their temptations were such as human nature had often been subject to, and God was able to keep them from falling.

When “Jesus was led up by the Spirit into the wilderness to be tempted by the devil” (Matt.

4:1) it is clear that both God and Satan participated in the testing.

God intended the test to prove His Son’s righteousness, but Satan intended it to induce Jesus to misuse His divine powers and to give His allegiance to Satan.

Job was tested in much the same way.

God allowed Job to be afflicted in order to prove His servant was an “upright man, fearing God and turning away from evil” (Job 1:8).

Satan’s purpose was the opposite: to prove that Job was faithful only because of the blessings and prosperity the Lord had given him and that, if those things were taken away, Job would “surely curse Thee to Thy face” (v.

11).

Joseph – Gen. 50:20

 

God’s tests are never a solicitation to evil, and James strongly corrects those who suggest such a thing.

“Let no one say when he is tempted, ‘I am being tempted by God’; for God cannot be tempted by evil, and He Himself does not tempt anyone” (James 1:13).

“By evil” is the key to the difference between the two types of temptation.

In the wilderness God tested Jesus by righteousness, whereas Satan tested Him by evil.

A temptation becomes an inducement to evil only when a person “is carried away and enticed by his own lust.

Then when lust has conceived, it gives birth to sin”   James 1:14-15  14But each one is tempted when he is carried away and enticed by his own lust.

15Then when lust has conceived, it gives birth to sin; and when sin is accomplished, it brings forth death.

Earlier in his letter James wrote, “Consider it all joy, my brethren, when you encounter various trials” (1:2).

The nouns /trials/ (see also verse 12) and /testing/ (v. 3) are from the same Greek root as the verb /tempted /in verses 13-14.

The context indicates which sense is meant.

*2 Corinthians **11:23** - 28** (**NASB**)** *23Are they servants of Christ?—I speak as if insane—I more so; in far more labors, in far more imprisonments, beaten times without number, often in danger of death.

24Five times I received from the Jews thirty-nine /lashes.

/ 25Three times I was beaten with rods, once I was stoned, three times I was shipwrecked, a night and a day I have spent in the deep.

26/I have been/ on frequent journeys, in dangers from rivers, dangers from robbers, dangers from /my/ countrymen, dangers from the Gentiles, dangers in the city, dangers in the wilderness, dangers on the sea, dangers among false brethren;  27/I have been/ in labor and hardship, through many sleepless nights, in hunger and thirst, often without food, in cold and exposure.

28Apart from /such/ external things, there is the daily pressure on me /of/ concern for all the churches.

*Hebrews 12:4** (**NASB**) *4You have not yet resisted to the point of shedding blood in your striving against sin;  \\ \\ *1 Peter 1:6 - 7 (NASB) *6In this you greatly rejoice, even though now for a little while, if necessary, you have been distressed by various trials,  7so that the proof of your faith, /being/ more precious than gold which is perishable, even though tested by fire, may be found to result in praise and glory and honor at the revelation of Jesus Christ; 

Principle Number One –    Remember Our Position

 

Principle Number Two –    Remember Our Provider

 

and God is faithful,

 

Faithful – trustworthy - trusty, faithful

1a) of persons who show themselves faithful in the transaction of business, the execution of commands, or the discharge of official duties

1b) one who kept his plighted faith, worthy of trust

1c) that can be relied on

2) easily persuaded

2a) believing, confiding, trusting

 

Though Satan be a deceiver, God is true.

Men may be false, and the world may be false; but God is faithful, and our strength and security are in Him.

He keepeth his covenant, and will never disappoint the filial hope and trust of his children.

This was the only source of security; and this was enough.

If they looked only to themselves, they would fall.

If they depended on the faithfulness of God, they would be secure.

The sense is, not that God would keep them without any effort of their own; not that he would secure them if they plunged into temptation; but that if they used the proper means, if they resisted temptation, and sought his aid, and depended on his promises, then he would be faithful.

This is everywhere implied in the Scriptures; and to depend on the faithfulness of God,

 

*1 Peter **4:19** (**NASB**) *19Therefore, those also who suffer according to the will of God shall entrust their souls to a faithful Creator in doing what is right.

*Deuteronomy 7:9** (**NASB**) *9“Know therefore that the LORD your God, He is God, the faithful God, who keeps His covenant and His lovingkindness to a thousandth generation with those who love Him and keep His commandments; 

*Isaiah 25:1** (**NASB**) *1    O Lord, You are my God;     I will exalt You, I will give thanks to Your name;     For You have worked wonders, Plans /formed/ long ago, with perfect faithfulness.

*Lamentations 3:22 - 23** (**NASB**) *22    The LORD’S lovingkindnesses indeed never cease,     For His compassions never fail.

23    /They/ are new every morning;     Great is Your faithfulness.

* **2 Thessalonians 3:3** (**NASB**) *3But the Lord is faithful, and He will strengthen and protect you from the evil /one.

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*2 Timothy 2:11 - 13** (**NASB**) *11    It is a trustworthy statement:     For if we died with Him, we will also live with Him; 12    If we endure, we will also reign with Him;     If we deny Him, He also will deny us; 13    If we are faithless, He remains faithful, for He cannot deny Himself.

*Hebrews 10:23** (**NASB**) *23Let us hold fast the confession of our hope without wavering, for He who promised is faithful; 

*1 Peter **4:19** (**NASB**) *19Therefore, those also who suffer according to the will of God shall entrust their souls to a faithful Creator in doing what is right.

We study the Bible not to know the Bible but to know the God of the Bible.

Principle Number One –    Remember Our Position

Principle Number Two –    Remember Our Provider

 

Principle Number Three – Remember Our Promise

 

who will not allow you to be tempted beyond what you are able,

 

God will not suffer you to be tried above the strength he gives you

 

Allow – permit

Temptation - to test objectively - to try whether a thing can be done

1a) to attempt, endeavor

 

He will not let us experience any test we are not able to meet.

 

2) to try, make trial of, test: for the purpose of ascertaining his quantity, or what he thinks, or how he will behave himself

 

Beyond - over, beyond, more than

 

Able - to be able, have power whether by virtue of one’s own ability and resources, or of a state of mind, or through favorable circumstances, or by permission of law or custom

2) To be able to do something

3) To be capable, strong and powerful

 

Either our trials will be proportioned to our strength, or strength will be supplied in proportion to our temptations.

That all the circumstances, causes, and agents that leads to temptation are under the control of God.

WHEN PEOPLE ARE TEMPTED, IT IS BECAUSE GOD SUFFERS OR PERMITS IT.

HE HIMSELF DOES NOT TEMPT HUMAN BEINGS *James 1:13** (**NASB**) *13Let no one say when he is tempted, “I am being tempted by God”; for God cannot be tempted by evil, and He Himself does not tempt anyone.

He does not infuse evil thoughts into the mind; He does not create an object of temptation to place in our way, but He suffers it to be placed there by others.

When we are tempted, therefore, we are to remember that it is because He allows or permits it; not because He does it.

His agency is that of sufferance, not of creation.