Sermon Topic: Temptation

Strength for the Tempted

Date: October 23rd, 1955  |  Scripture: 1 Corinthians 10:12-13  |  Topics: Apostasy, Perseverance, Pride, Satan, Temptation

Wherefore let him that thinketh he standeth take heed lest he fall. There hath no temptation taken you but such as is common to man: but God is faithful, 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 bear it.


Satan

Date: February 26th, 1956  |  Scripture: Matthew 4:1-11  |  Topics: Angels, Devil, Evil, Satan, Temptation

Then was Jesus led up of the Spirit into the wilderness to be tempted of the devil. And when he had fasted forty days and forty nights, he was afterward an hungred. And when the tempter came to him, he said, If thou be the Son of God, command that these stones be made bread. But he answered and said, It is written, Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of God. Then the devil taketh him up into the holy city, and setteth him on a pinnacle of the temContinue Reading


The Way of the Wilderness

Date: January 25th, 1959  |  Scripture: Exodus 15  |  Topics: Attitude, Failure, Healing, Hope, Temptation, Trials, Wilderness

Then sang Moses and the children of Israel this song unto the LORD, and spake, saying, I will sing unto the LORD, for he hath triumphed gloriously: the horse and his rider hath he thrown into the sea. The LORD is my strength and song, and he is become my salvation: he is my God, and I will prepare him an habitation; my father’s God, and I will exalt him. The LORD is a man of war: the LORD is his name. Pharaoh’s chariots and his host hath he cast into the sea: his chosen captains also are drownedContinue Reading


Fallen Angels and Fallen Men

Date: October 9th, 1960  |  Scripture: 2 Peter 2:1-9  |  Topics: Confidence, Evil, Fallen, Humanity, Rejection, Sinners, Temptation, Trust

But there were false prophets also among the people, even as there shall be false teachers among you, who privily shall bring in damnable heresies, even denying the Lord that bought them, and bring upon themselves swift destruction. And many shall follow their pernicious ways; by reason of whom the way of truth shall be evil spoken of. And through covetousness shall they with feigned words make merchandise of you: whose judgment now of a long time lingereth not, and their damnation slumbereth noContinue Reading


The Terrible Temptations

Date: April 5th, 1964  |  Scripture: Matthew 4:1-11  |  Topics: Temptation, Testing, Trial, Victory

Then was Jesus led up of the Spirit into the wilderness to be tempted of the devil. And when he had fasted forty days and forty nights, he was afterward an hungred. And when the tempter came to him, he said, If thou be the Son of God, command that these stones be made bread. But he answered and said, It is written, Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of God. Then the devil taketh him up into the holy city, and setteth him on a pinnacle of the temContinue Reading


I Have Prayed for Thee

Date: May 25th, 1969  |  Scripture: Luke 22:31-32  |  Topics: Failure, Grace, Prayer, Temptation, Testing

And the Lord said, Simon, Simon, behold, Satan hath desired to have you, that he may sift you as wheat: But I have prayed for thee, that thy faith fail not: and when thou art converted, strengthen thy brethren.


The Trials of the Faith

Date: July 28th, 1974  |  Scripture: James 1:2-3  |  Topics: Evil, Faith, Growth, Life, Patience, Temptation, Trials, disappointment, endurance, maturity

My brethren, count it all joy when ye fall into divers temptations; Knowing this, that the trying of your faith worketh patience.


The Trials of Faith

Date: July 28th, 1974  |  Scripture: James 1:2-3  |  Topics: Evil, Faith, Growth, Life, Patience, Temptation, Trials, disappointment, endurance, maturity

My brethren, count it all joy when ye fall into divers temptations; Knowing this, that the trying of your faith worketh patience.


The World Of Satan

Date: April 5th, 1977  |  Scripture: Matthew 4:1-11  |  Topics: Conflict, Judgment, Satan, Temptation

Then was Jesus led up of the Spirit into the wilderness to be tempted of the devil. And when he had fasted forty days and forty nights, he was afterward an hungred. And when the tempter came to him, he said, If thou be the Son of God, command that these stones be made bread. But he answered and said, It is written, Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of God. Then the devil taketh him up into the holy city, and setteth him on a pinnacle of the temContinue Reading


The Great Renunciation

Date: April 9th, 1979  |  Scripture: Exodus 2  |  Topics: Captivity, Chosen, Deliverer, Egypt, Exodus, Faith, Israel, Moses, Pharaoh, Ramses, Self-Denial, Slavery, Temptation, Trust, solidarity

And there went a man of the house of Levi, and took to wife a daughter of Levi. And the woman conceived, and bare a son: and when she saw him that he was a goodly child, she hid him three months. And when she could not longer hide him, she took for him an ark of bulrushes, and daubed it with slime and with pitch, and put the child therein; and she laid it in the flags by the river’s brink. And his sister stood afar off, to wit what would be done to him. And the daughter of Pharaoh came down to wContinue Reading