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Navigating Temptation: Tests of Faith and Resolve

Explore the significance of temptations in the context of faith and individual moral struggles, as illustrated from biblical passages and philosophical insights. Delve into the dual nature of temptation as a test and a lure, examining how it challenges our intellect, will, and spiritual beliefs. Reflect on the ultimate test posed by Satan, urging us to maintain our usefulness, resilience, and faith amidst worldly temptations. Discover the subtle yet profound moral struggles we face in choosing between duty and allure, and the essence of true goodness in the face of evil.

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Navigating Temptation: Tests of Faith and Resolve

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  1. Mathew 4: 1-11

  2. Being led to be tempted?TemptedTempterTest

  3. Prelude Mathew 3:16-17

  4. Peirasmós Temptation or Test The positive sense ("test") and negative sense ("temptation”) When tempted, no one should say, “God” is tempting me. For God cannot be tempted by evil, nor does He tempt anyone. James 1:13

  5. Mat 4: 3-4 Deut 8:3 Mat 4: 6-7 Ps 91:11 Deut 6:16 Mat 4: 9-10 Deut 6:13

  6. Test 1 Test of intellect - Materialism

  7. Test 2 Test of Will - Utilitarianism

  8. Snatch from his hand the balanceand the rod, Re-judge his justice, be the GOD of GOD!” - Alexander Pope

  9. Test 3 The ultimate test

  10. Satan tempts us at the point of our physical needs, not that we might gratify them to excess, but that we might think of nothing else, and satisfy them at the expense of our usefulness in this world. Satan tempts us at the point of our ambitions, not that we might engage in positive evil, but that we might simply accept the fact of evil, learn to live with it, come to terms with it, and maintain a quiet reverence in the presence of it. Satan tempts us at the point of our religion, not that we might disbelieve in God, but that we might demand certainty, that type of certainty of God that leaves nothing to faith, nothing to God himself. These are the moral struggles that have reality for people such as we are. The subtle temptation to renounce our duty in favor of what is attractive, that insidious allurement to a kind of half-goodness which is the essence of everything bad and which is more productive of suffering and hatred, war and misery in this world than all the designs of wicked and greedy people combined. – Arthur Leonard Griffith (GOD’s time and ours)

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