Tentação
A tentação faz parte da jornada cristã, mas Deus é fiel e não permite que sejamos tentados além do que podemos suportar. Em Cristo, temos poder para resistir e vencer.
A realidade da tentação
Jesus foi tentado em tudo como nós e compreende nossas lutas. A Bíblia nos ensina que a tentação não é pecado — o pecado está em ceder a ela.
where He was tested for forty days by the devil. He ate nothing at all during those days, so after they were completed He was hungry.
O escape providenciado
Deus sempre providencia uma saída. Não precisamos cair, pois Ele nos dá forças para resistir e promete nos livrar da provação.
No testing has overtaken you except what is common to man, and God is competent, who will not allow you to be tested beyond what you can stand, but with the testing will also provide the way out, that you may be able to endure it.
And do not bring us into testing,
but rescue us from the evil one;
because Yours is the kingdom and the power and the glory forever. Amen.’
Vigilância e resistência
A Palavra de Deus, a oração e a vigilância são nossas armas contra a tentação. Vigiar e orar é o conselho do próprio Jesus.
Watch and pray, so that you do not enter into temptation. The spirit on its part is willing, but the flesh is weak."
But the seed sown among the thorns—this is he who hears the word, but the care of this age and the deceitfulness of riches choke out the word, and it becomes fruitless.
He went on to say: "That which comes out of a man, that is what defiles him. Because from within, out of men’s hearts, the evil designs proceed—adulteries, fornications, murders, thefts, covetings, malignancies; deceit, lewdness, an evil eye, blasphemy, arrogance, foolishness— all these malignant things proceed from within and defile the man."
Brothers, if a man is actually caught in some wrongdoing, you, the spiritual ones, should restore him in a spirit of gentleness, watching out for yourself lest you also be tempted.