Jesus was tried, tempted, and tested throughout His ministry here on earth. In order for Old Testament prophecy and all of God’s laws to be fulfilled, His Son had to go through the most awful agony and torture anyone in history has every known. Jesus, as man, could not dodge or skip anything that was…
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Willing Spirit, Weak Flesh
“For the flesh lusteth against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh: and these are contrary the one to the other: so that ye cannot do the things that ye would.” Galatians 5:17 When the Apostle Paul wrote these words, he was saying that he had discovered that he had no strength of his…
Tempted and Tried
“Jesus said unto him, It is written again…You shall not tempt the Lord thy God.” Deuteronomy 6:16; Matthew 4:7 What does it mean to “tempt” God? It refers to testing His strength, goodness, value, and truth, or to put Him to the proof to see if what He says is true. It means that we…