About Us. How To Resist Temptation

Well as you know I've said it a number of times I can resist anything right? I can resist anything except one thing, there's only one thing I can't resist ---what is that church? Temptation. Why is that the Apostle Paul say that God will not let me be tempted or tested beyond what I can bear? But it seems I'm always tempted beyond what I can bear, What's with that? Hasn't God, in Christ, already forgiven Me? Why does it matter what I do?  What does it matter whether I sin or not since I'm forgiven! You know I'm baptized right? I’ve had all my sins forgiven! I take Holy Communion every week. Doesn't that guarantee me that I'm forgiven? Doesn't that guarantee I have nothing to worry about? I can do pretty much anything I want - - - and still be okay right in God's eyes. Then why does the Apostle Paul say that that type of reasoning is ignorant. Let's look at this section of scriptures more carefully.


1 Corinthians 10:1-13 NIV

Warnings From Israel’s History

10 For I do not want you to be ignorant of the fact, brothers and sisters, that our ancestors were all under the cloud and that they all passed through the sea. They were all baptized into Moses in the cloud and in the sea. They all ate the same spiritual food and drank the same spiritual drink; for they drank from the spiritual rock that accompanied them, and that rock was Christ. Nevertheless, God was not pleased with most of them; their bodies were scattered in the wilderness.

Now these things occurred as examples to keep us from setting our hearts on evil things as they did. Do not be idolaters, as some of them were; as it is written: “The people sat down to eat and drink and got up to indulge in revelry.”[a] We should not commit sexual immorality, as some of them did—and in one day twenty-three thousand of them died. We should not test Christ,[b] as some of them did—and were killed by snakes. 10 And do not grumble, as some of them did—and were killed by the destroying angel.

11 These things happened to them as examples and were written down as warnings for us, on whom the culmination of the ages has come. 12 So, if you think you are standing firm, be careful that you don’t fall! 13 No temptation[c] has overtaken you except what is common to mankind. And God is faithful; he will not let you be tempted[d] beyond what you can bear. But when you are tempted,[e] he will also provide a way out so that you can endure it.

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Footnotes

  1. 1 Corinthians 10:7 Exodus 32:6
  2. 1 Corinthians 10:9 Some manuscripts test the Lord
  3. 1 Corinthians 10:13 The Greek for temptation and tempted can also mean testing and tested.
  4. 1 Corinthians 10:13 The Greek for temptation and tempted can also mean testing and tested.
  5. 1 Corinthians 10:13 The Greek for temptation and tempted can also mean testing and tested.





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