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.
15 For we do not have a high priest who cannot be touched with the feelings of our infirmities, but was in all points tempted just as [we are, yet] without sin.
2 forty days, being tempted by the Devil. And in those days He ate nothing. And they being ended, He afterward was hungry.
13 Let no one being tempted say, I am tempted from God. For God is not tempted by evils, and He tempts no one.
3 knowing that the trying of your faith works patience.
O escape providenciado
Deus sempre providencia uma saída. Não precisamos cair, pois Ele nos dá forças para resistir e promete nos livrar da provação.
13 No temptation has taken you but [what is] common to man; but God [is] faithful, who will not allow you to be tempted above what you are able, but with the temptation also will make a way to escape, so that you may be able to bear [it].
9 [The] Lord knows how to deliver the godly out of temptation, and to reserve the unjust for a day of judgment, to be punished,
13 And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from the evil. For Yours is the kingdom, and the power, and the glory, forever. Amen.
9 My Lord, all my desire [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.
41 Watch and pray that you enter not into temptation. The spirit indeed [is] willing, but the flesh [is] weak.
22 And that sown into the thorns is this: he who hears the Word; and the anxiety of this world, and the deceit of riches, choke the Word, and he becomes unfruitful.
20 And He said, That which comes out of the man is what defiles the man.21 For from within, out of the heart of men, proceed evil thoughts, adulteries, fornications, murders,22 thefts, covetousness, wickedness, deceit, lasciviousness, an evil eye, blasphemy, pride, foolishness:23 All these evil things pass out from inside and defile the man.
1 Brothers, if a man is overtaken in a fault, you the spiritual ones restore such a one in the spirit of meekness, considering yourself, lest you also be tempted.
28 Can one go upon hot coals, and his feet not be burned?
12 Blessed [is] the man who endures temptation, because having been approved, he will receive the crown of life which the Lord has promised to those who love Him.