Temptation:
(1.) Trial; a being put to the test. Thus God "tempted [Gen 22:1; R.V., 'did prove'] Abraham;" and afflictions are said to tempt, i.e., to try, men (Jam 1:2,12; Deu 8:2), putting their faith and patience to the test. (2.) Ordinarily, however, the word means solicitation to that which is evil, and hence Satan is called "the tempter" (Mat 4:3). Our Lord was in this way tempted in the wilderness. That temptation was not internal, but by a real, active, subtle being. It was not self-sought. It was submitted to as an act of obedience on his part. "Christ was led, driven. An unseen personal force bore him a certain violence is implied in the words" (Mat 4:1-11).
The scene of the temptation of our Lord is generally supposed to have been the mountain of Quarantania (q.v.), "a high and precipitous wall of rock, 1,200 or 1,500 feet above the plain west of Jordan, near Jericho."
Temptation is common to all (Dan 12:10; Zec 13:9; Psa 66:10; Luk 22:31,40; Hbr 11:17; Jam 1:12; 1Pe 1:7; 4:12). We read of the temptation of Joseph (Gen 39), of David (2Sa 24; 1Ch 21), of Hezekiah (2Ch 32:31), of Daniel (Dan 6), etc. So long as we are in this world we are exposed to temptations, and need ever to be on our watch against them.
Temptation:
Temptation: God Cannot Be the Subject Of
Temptation: Does Not Come from God
Temptation: Often Arises Through
Poverty
Prosperity
Worldly glory
Temptation: To Distrust of God's Providence
Temptation: To Presumption
Temptation: To Worshipping the God of This World
Temptation: Often strengthened by the perversion of God's word
Temptation: Always Conformable to the Nature of Man
Temptation: Christ
Endured, from the devil
Endured, from the wicked
Resisted by the word of God
Overcame
Sympathises with those under
Is able to help those under
Intercedes for his people under
Temptation: God will not suffer saints to be exposed to, beyond their
Temptation: God Will Make a Way for Saints to Escape Out Of
Temptation: God Enables the Saints to Bear
Temptation: God Knows How to Deliver Saints Out Of
Temptation: Christ Keeps Faithful Saints from the Hour Of
Temptation: Saints May Be in Heaviness Through
Temptation: Saints Should
Resist, in faith
Watch against
Pray to be kept from
Not to occasion, to others
Restore those overcome by
Avoid the way of
Temptation: The Devil Will Renew
Temptation: Has Strength through the Weakness of the Flesh
Temptation: Mere Professors Fall Away in Time Of
1 | Strong's Number: g3986 | Greek: peirasmos |
Temptation:
akin to A, above, is used of
(1) "trials" with a beneficial purpose and effect,
(a) of "trials" or "temptations," Divinely permitted or sent, Luk 22:28; Act 20:19; Jam 1:2; 1Pe 1:6; 4:12, RV, "to prove," AV, "to try;" 2Pe 2:9 (singular); Rev 3:10, RV, "trial" (AV, "temptation"); in Jam 1:12, "temptation" apparently has meanings (1) and (2) combined (see below), and is used in the widest sense;
(b) with a good or neutral significance, Gal 4:14, of Paul's physical infirmity, "a temptation" to the Galatian converts, of such a kind as to arouse feelings of natural repugnance;
(c) of "trials" of a varied character, Mat 6:13; Luk 11:4, where believers are commanded to pray not to be led into such by forces beyond their own control; Mat 26:41; Mar 14:38; Luk 22:40, 46, where they are commanded to watch and pray against entering into "temptations" by their own carelessness or disobedience; in all such cases God provides "the way of escape," 1Cr 10:13 (where peirasmos occurs twice).
(2) Of "trial" definitely designed to lead to wrong doing, "temptation," Luk 4:13; 8:13; 1Ti 6:9;
(3) of "trying" or challenging God, by men, Hbr 3:8.
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