Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-11-01
Every Temptation to Turn
From God Comes from Deuil

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From God C
Mr.. sundays last Saturday aftsr-
noon sermon today WAS preached
on the text. Tho Temptation Of
Jesus" He said:
I should like to explain . diAcult
passage Of scripture % It might be
as helpful to you Is It has been To
me, and to teach you . lesson from
1t that might be source Of encour-
agement to you.
! am going to talk about the
temptation Of Jesus. am com.
PEELED 70 disagree with some COM
mentators in their explanations of
this. Not Just to b arbitrary, bui
what they see I do mot see 1t all
The history Of the temptation Il
found only In Matthew and Luke
John does not meftion It and Mari
diemissss II with Z few words.
Matthew ana Lake are the only
new testament books that give vi
the eensAlogy Of Jesus. Hence
they are the only ones that give vi
the key necessary to understand the
temptation.
After He had been baptized BY
John. and the heavens had opened
and the spirit Of God descended
upon Him like = dove: after al'
those things was He led by thu
Spirit into the wilderness.
Now the verb tempted" means
to be tried. The spirit Of God doe.
not mean to tempt any man to DE-
wrong. You will be tempted ant
you will b tested. All temptation
comes from the devil. The Spirit,
Of God does not tempt anybody.
He was led by the Spirit into
the wilderness" .
You are tested every day thal
you are led by the Spirit. Ever,
day you meet something. But vol
are led by the Spirit and you ar.
tested; but al temptation that get!
you to turn away from God, come,
from the devil.
So there 10 Q big difference be
tween being tested and tempted
You are tested by the Spirit: 70,
are tempted BY the devil. That 1,
how you come TO DO II. -
And We have been taught tina,
II We had the Holy Spirit Their,
would Be no effort and we woult
always have victory. but It. viii
only come after tight.
Now please disabuas the fact tina
you have no temptations, when 70,
become q Christian. You will. Ant
you will BE- tempted. You nevel
get % good that you will mot b,
tempted: but you win not yield t
temptation.
After TIE Spirit the Deyit,
After the Spirit came upon Jesus
the devil came. That has Away,
been true. After the Holy Spiri
came upon the people Of Pentscost
the devil came around And sai,
that these people were al drunk
And Peter got up and made hin
mad by saying that It was q lie
that it was but the third hour o
the day.
| Whenever the power OF the Spiri
OF God comes to move on a city
you will always find the devil Il
and out Of the church, beginning
to throw cold water on It. II 20,
want to ses It. Just see where tn
Spirit 10 working and there you vii
dnd the devil, too. The heart Q
the devil works to divert thei,
attention. So learn something, vii
you?
When We begin to rush forwar'
in . life Of complete submission +
| Jesus Christ then the devil begin
to oppose and II you want to kno,
how much you are doing for Coz
md out how much the devil Is OF
fposing what you are trying to d
When I stand stu on this plat
form feel no air breaking aeainl
my chest But il I should leav
this platform and run down th
aisle, as ! rushed forward the al
mosphere would rush against m,
The atmosphere> exerts the sam
pressure against an object mo,
ing through the air as it would
that object were standing still an
the wind blew against It. SO whe
I stand still I feel no; opposite
but when ! rush the air rrshe
Iagainst me. =
So when I! begin to rush to d
something for TOD, then all th
devils begin to oppose me. Al
ways.
Some people don't believe ia
devil. l always feel sorry for
devil like that. Now. the devil
ian individual, not an influence. IT.
Holy Spirit II not an influence
you are not IN influence; you ~
. personality nut you can exert a
influence.
So God Is personality; he 81
erts influence. The des II is a psl
sonality: he sxerts influence. 6
am ]. I am personality. too. T.
same argument for the PERSONAL:
Oh . God holds. good for the pc,
isouality Of the devil. i
!! ! know the devil. YES, he VI
my master at one time. I worke
for the devil for good r,a,l
Years. ! know linn. I an Cut
him. Z am next. Ikrcw his 6 IN
How shrewdly the devil works.
u Look out! Big-hearted man I
ig-hearted roman! You woul
make 4 splendid spendthrift. Yc
would keep your husbands nose
; the grindstone. Tou are always
debt and then you can't pray wei
fer you are worrying
Look out! High-strung. nervo,
. tempered man or woman! &c
} might do = desperate deed 4.
have to 60 to prison for 1t.
And look out! Good penmaz
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