I was called to be an evangelist who would teach the members how to biblically witness according to the methodologies outlined in the Bible. It was with this calling I was seeking leadership who would allow the
3) Jesus “has been tempted in every way.” Some can hear that and think, “Sure, well, Jesus was tempted, but He was God. He had all the power to resist.” While that is true, it is one side and incomplete. Like Frodo on Mount Doom, the closer he got, the heavier the ring ...
yet without sin” (Hebrews 4:15). Jesus Christ, the God-man, was truly tempted in his humanity, though not in all the same ways as sinners are. Temptations came at him from without, while inside he remained “without sin.” Though Satan and a rebellious world assaulted...
"1Jesus, full of the Holy Spirit, returned from the Jordan and was led by the Spirit in the desert,2where for forty days he was tempted by the devil. He ate nothing during those days, and at the end of them he was hungry.3The devil said to him, 'If you are the Son of God,...
So now, IT WAS NOT YOU WHO SENT ME HERE, BUT GOD.” Genesis 45:1-8a Irrelevant None of this implies that Joseph’s faith required him to pretend that there had been no harm done to him. Joseph saw things as they were. But his faith in God created within Joseph the understanding ...
The term “saint” refers to those whom God has set apart for Him, and was often used in the Old Testament to describe faithful believers in Israel. In the New Testament, it is extended to all who have faith in Christ. The death of a saint is not seen as a loss, but rather a tr...
was to come. Thechurchremembered this as the occasion when the newcovenantwas celebrated, acovenantestablished when Jesus offered up the sacrifice of that body and blood which the church received in this Supper. John’sGospelhas no account of this institution but has a lengthy series of ...
He was tempted by Satan like all human beings, and yet He never sinned at all. Jesus never sinned in any way because He was so close to God the Father and God the Holy Spirit at all times, and because He was determined to be OBEDIENT to the will of His Father God in all things....
The Spirit is willing, but the flesh is weak. But God has a Word for us when we are tempted to sin against Him. In 1 Cor. 10:13 (KJV) it is written, “There hath no temptation taken you but such as is common to man: but God is faithful, who will not suffer you to be temp...
13There hath no temptation taken you but such as is common to man: but Godisfaithful, 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 bearit.14Wherefore, my dearly beloved, flee from idol...