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The Doctrine of Temptation
 


Temptation and sin are not the same thing. Jesus Himself was tempted by the devil, and overcame that temptation. Temptation only becomes sin when you give in to then same. Let's look at what the Bible has to say about temptation:

TEMPTATION COMES FROM THREE SOURCES: THE WORLD, THE FLESH, AND SATAN.

 

Temptation From The World

ROMANS 12.2

"AND BE NOT CONFORMED (SUSCHEMATIZO, FASHIONED ALIKE, MOLDED BY, CONFORMED BY A PATTERN)

TO THIS WORLD: BUT BE YE TRANSFORMED (METAMORPHOO, TRANSFIGURED, CHANGED FROM ONE CREATURE TO ANOTHER)

BY THE RENEWING (ANAKAINOSIS, RENOVATION, RENEWING TOTALLY)

OF YOUR MIND, (NOUS, INTELLECT, MIND, STORAGE FACILITY OF THE SOUL)

THAT YE MAY PROVE (DOKIMAZO= TEST FOR THE PURPOSE OF APPROVING, DISCERN BY TESTING)

WHAT IS THAT GOOD, AND ACCEPTABLE, AND PERFECT WILL OF GOD."

1 JOHN 2.15-16

"LOVE NOT (PRESENT LINEAR ACTION, IMPERATIVE AGAPAO + NEGATIVE ME, STOP LOVING)

THE WORLD, NEITHER THE THINGS THAT ARE IN THE WORLD. IF ANY MAN LOVE THE WORLD, THE LOVE OF THE FATHER IS NOT IN HIM. FOR ALL THAT IS IN THE WORLD, THE LUST OF THE FLESH, AND THE LUST OF THE EYES, AND THE PRIDE OF LIFE, IS NOT OF THE FATHER, BUT IS OF THE WORLD."

 

Temptations From The Devil

JAMES 4.7-8

"SUBMIT (HUPOTASSO, AORIST PASSIVE, BE UNDER THE AUTHORITY OF)

YOURSELVES THEREFORE (OUN, INFERENTIAL CONJUNCTION, BECAUSE OF THIS, THEREFORE)

TO GOD. RESIST (ANTHISTEMI, AOR ACT IMPER, STAND AGAINST, OPPOSE)

THE DEVIL (DIABLOS, EVIL ONE)

AND HE WILL FLEE (PHUOGO, FUTURE MIDDLE, HE HIMSELF WILL RUN AWAY, AVOID)

FROM (APO, PREPOSITION OF ULTIMATE SOURCE)

YOU. DRAW NIGH (EGGIZO, AOR ACT IMPER, APPROACH, COME TO)

TO GOD, AND HE WILL DRAW NIGH (EGGIZO, FUTURE ACT INDIC, WILL COME NEAR TO YOU)

TO YOU. CLEANSE (KATHARIZO, AOR ACT, CEREMONIALLY CLEAN, REFERS TO CONFESSION OF SIN, PURIFY)

YOUR HANDS YE SINNERS, (LOCATIVE PLURAL HAMARTALOS, ALL WHO MISS THE MARK. REFERS TO BACKSLIDDEN CHRISTIANS)

AND PURIFY (AGNIZO, CLEANSE FROM WITHIN)

YOUR HEARTS, YE DOUBLEMINDED. (DIPSUCHOI, DOUBLE SOULED. ONE WHO IS IN A BACKSLIDDEN IS A BELIEVER WHO LIVES LIKE AN UNBELIEVER, SO IS REFERRED TO AS A DOUBLE SOULED PERSON)"

 

Temptation From The Flesh

ROMANS 7.15-17

"FOR THAT WHICH I DO I ALLOW (GINOSKO, TO KNOW OR UNDERSTAND BY EXPERIENCE. I.E., I DON'T KNOW IN MYSELF WHY I'M DOING THIS.)

NOT: FOR WHAT I WOULD, THAT DO NOT. BUT WHAT I HATE, THAT DO I. IF THEN I DO THAT WHICH I WOULD NOT, I CONSENT UNTO THE LAW THAT IT IS GOOD. NOW THEN IT IS NO MORE I THAT DO IT, BUT SIN THAT DWELLETH IN ME."

GALATIANS 5.16-21

"THIS I SAY THEN, WALK (PRES ACT IMPERATIVE PERIPATEO, KEEP ON WALKING, KEEP ON LIVING)

IN THE SPIRIT AND YE SHALL NOT FULFILL THE LUST OF THE FLESH. FOR THE FLESH LUSTETH AGAINST (LIT = IN OPPOSITION TO)

THE SPIRIT, AND THE SPIRIT AGAINST THE FLESH, AND THESE ARE CONTRARY THE ONE TO THE OTHER: SO THAT YE CANNOT DO THE THINGS THAT YE WOULD. BUT IF YE BE LED OF THE SPIRIT YE ARE NOT UNDER THE LAW. NOW THE WORKS (ERGA, PRODUCTION FROM ENERGY)

OF THE FLESH ARE (PRES ACT INDIC, EIMI, WILL ALWAYS BE)

MANIFEST, WHICH ARE THESE;

[A list of sexual sins]

ADULTERY (Illicit sex with another person you aren't married to)

FORNICATION (Illicit sex with an unmarried person)

UNCLEANNESS (homosexual activity)

LASCIVIOUSNESS (All other sexual promiscuity)

[Sins against the Person of God]

IDOLATRY (making other gods)

WITCHCRAFT (collusion with satan)

[Sins against the Members of the Body of Christ]

HATRED

VARIANCE (disagreeableness leading to fighting)

EMULATIONS (causing divisions in the body)

WRATH (Physical evidence of hatred)

STRIFE (open warfare)

[The following sins are against the Church Leaders]

SEDITIONS (Undermining God's authority, the Pastor)

HERESIES (Undermining God's word)

[The following sins are against society in general]

ENVYINGS (Jealousy)

MURDERS (Character as well as overt murder)

DRUNKENNESS

REVELLINGS (wild partying)

AND SUCH LIKE: OF THE WHICH I TELL YOU (PROLEGO, PRES LINEAR AKTIONSART, HAVE REPEATEDLY TOLD YOU BEFORE)

BEFORE, AS I HAVE ALSO TOLD YOU IN TIME PAST, THAT THEY WHICH DO (PRES LINEAR ACTIVE, PROSSO, HABITUALLY PRACTICE)

SUCH THINGS SHALL NOT INHERIT THE KINGDOM OF GOD."