Temptation

God cannot be the subject of Jas 1:13

Does not come from God Jas 1:13

COMES FROM

• Lusts Jas 1:14
• Covetousness Pr 28:20; 1Ti 6:9,10

The devil is the author of 1Ch 21:1; Mt 4:1; Joh 13:2; 1Th 3:5

Evil associates, the instruments of Pr 1:10; 7:6; 16:29

OFTEN ARISES THROUGH

• Poverty Pr 30:9; Mt 4:2,3
• Prosperity Pr 30:9; Mt 4:8
• Worldly glory Nu 22:17; Da 4:30; 5:2; Mt 4:8

To distrust of God's providence Mt 4:3

To presumption Mt 4:6

To worshipping the god of this world Mt 4:9

Often strengthened by the perversion of God's word Mt 4:6

PERMITTED AS A TRIAL OF

• Faith 1Pe 1:7; Jas 1:2,3
• Disinterestedness Job 1:9-12

Always conformable to the nature of man 1Co 10:13

Often ends in sin and perdition 1Ti 6:9; Jas 1:15

CHRIST

• Endured, from the devil Mr 1:13
• Endured, from the wicked Mt 16:1; 22:18; Lu 10:25
• Resisted by the word of God Mt 4:4,7,10
• Overcame Mt 4:11
• Sympathises with those under Heb 4:15
• Is able to help those under Heb 2:18
• Intercedes for his people under Lu 22:31,32; Joh 17:15

God will not suffer saints to be exposed to, beyond their powers to bear1Co 10:13

God will make a way for saints to escape out of 1Co 10:13

God enables the saints to bear 1Co 10:13

God knows how to deliver saints out of 2Pe 2:9

Christ keeps faithful saints from the hour of Re 3:10

Saints may be in heaviness through 1Pe 1:6

SAINTS SHOULD

• Resist, in faith Eph 6:16; 1Pe 5:9
• Watch against Mt 26:41; 1Pe 5:8
• Pray to be kept from Mt 6:13; 26:41
• Not to occasion, to others Ro 14:13
• Restore those overcome by Ga 6:1
• Avoid the way of Pr 4:14,15

The devil will renew Lu 4:13

Has strength through the weakness of the flesh Mt 26:41

Mere professors fall away in time of Lu 8:13

Blessedness of those who meet and overcome Jas 1:2-4,12

Exemplified

• Eve Ge 3:1,4,5
• Joseph Ge 39:7
• Balaam Nu 22:17
• Achan Jos 7:21
• David 2Sa 11:2
• Jeroboam 1Ki 15:30
• Peter Mr 14:67-71
• Paul 2Co 12:7; Ga 4:14