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.
For we do not have a high priest who is not able to sympathize with our weaknesses, but who has been tempted in all things in the same way, without sin.
forty days, being tempted by the devil. And he ate nothing during those days, and when they were completed, he was hungry.
No one who is being tempted should say, "I am being tempted by God," for God cannot be tempted by evil, and he himself tempts no one.
because you know that the testing of your faith produces endurance.
O escape providenciado
Deus sempre providencia uma saída. Não precisamos cair, pois Ele nos dá forças para resistir e promete nos livrar da provação.
Temptation has not come upon you except what is common to humanity. But God is faithful, who will not permit you to be tempted beyond what you are able, but will also make a way out together with the temptation, so that you may be able to endure it.
then the Lord knows how to rescue the godly from trials and to reserve the unrighteous to be punished at the day of judgment,
And do not bring us into temptation,
but deliver us from the evil one.
O Lord, all my longing is before you,
and my sighing is not hidden from you.
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.
Stay awake and pray that you will not enter into temptation. The spirit is willing, but the flesh is weak!"
And what was sown into the thorn plants—this is the one who hears the word, and the anxiety of this world and the deceitfulness of wealth choke the word and it becomes unproductive.
And he said, "What comes out of a person, that defiles a person. For from within, from the heart of people, come evil plans, sexual immoralities, thefts, murders, adulteries, acts of greed, malicious deeds, deceit, licentiousness, envy, abusive speech, pride, foolishness. All these evil things come from within and defile a person."
Carry One Another’s Burdens
Brothers, even if a person is caught in some trespass, you who are spiritual restore such a person in a spirit of humility, looking out for yourself, lest you also be tempted.
If a man walks upon the hot coals,
will his feet not be burned?
Blessed is the person who endures testing, because when he is approved he will receive the crown of life that he has promised to those who love him.
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