From Our Pastor's Desk
Welcome to this our new Month of Victory over Temptations on Earth in Jesus name.
Before we were born-again, evil desires were the only temptations we understood. Disobedience, fleshly lusts, arrogance and self-gratification was all we knew.
But by regeneration, after receiving Christ into our lives, we are lifted into another realm where we face the kind of temptations our Lord faced Matthew 4:1-11 - temptations from satan not to do wrong things, but he also tempts us in order to make us lose.
At this point satan does not come along the line of tempting us to sin, but on the line of shifting our focus, and only the Spirit of God can reveal this as a temptation of the devil. Satan is the prince of this world, is called "the tempter" in Matthew 4:3.
God does not tempt. That’s why Jesus taught us to pray thus - Matthew 6:13 – “And lead us not into temptation… ” that we may not yield to temptation. Temptation is something that tests a person's righteous-ness and strength of character.
It is a solicitation or enticement to do that which is evil, that which is in obedience to God’s instructions. Mercy Seatizens, welcome to September 2022, “Our Month of Victory over Temptations on Earth”.
Satan can tempt all he likes, all day and year, but we, we will not fall. We will stand our ground, on the ROCK that is Jesus the Christ.
That grace we receive, in Jesus Name.
Amen.
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