What does the Bible say about temptation?
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🗓️ 4 December 2020
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The person who said that only death and taxes are inevitable should have added a third category: temptation. We all face temptation every day. But why? Why does an all-knowing, all-loving, all-powerful God allow temptation? God is obviously stronger than Satan or our fallen world. It would seem he could remove temptation from our lives. So why does he allow it?
Dr. Jim Denison with the Denison Forum answers these questions as he dives into what the Bible says about temptation.
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to a bonus episode of the Daily Article podcast. |
| 0:05.0 | Over the next five to ten minutes, you'll hear Dr. Denison discuss what the Bible says about a particular topic. |
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| 0:17.0 | YouTube.com forward slash Denison Forum. Hello, my name is Chris Elkins, and I'm with slash Denison Forum. |
| 0:26.1 | Hello, my name is Chris Elkins, and I'm with the Denison Forum, and joining us today is Dr. Jim Denison, and we're going to talk some about what does the Bible say about a tough |
| 0:32.2 | subject, temptation. You know, the person who said that only death and taxes are inevitable probably should have added a third category, and that's a temptation. We all face it every day. Jim, you and I used to have a friend named Paul who said, I can, I can resist anything but temptation. So here's my question about temptation. Why? Why does an all-knowing, all-loving, all-powerful God even allow this? |
| 0:59.8 | He's obviously stronger than Satan and the fallen world. |
| 1:04.4 | It would seem that if he could remove temptation from us, it would make our lives so much more simple. |
| 1:09.5 | Why does he allow it? |
| 1:12.6 | Yeah, that's a great first question. as you're thinking about this subject, Chris. And it's really a question that once you think |
| 1:17.2 | about it is kind of a challenge to answer because you're right. God is all knowing, all loving, |
| 1:22.7 | and all powerful. So because he's all knowing, he knows when we're going to be tempted, |
| 1:26.8 | because he's all loving and all powerful when we're going to be tempted, because he's all loving and all |
| 1:28.3 | powerful and certainly more powerful than Satan, the tempter, more powerful than us or a fallen world. |
| 1:34.0 | He certainly could stop that temptation, you would think, and you would think he would want to do that because he loves us. |
| 1:40.1 | And so why does he, in fact, allow a world of such temptation? |
| 1:44.6 | Why do we have to face this, especially as believers? |
| 1:47.3 | You could argue that maybe people that aren't Christians don't have the Holy Spirit living in their lives, and that's different. |
| 1:52.5 | But for us, who are the Temple of the Holy Spirit, why does God even allow this in our lives? |
| 1:58.7 | It's really the question. |
| 2:00.2 | It's really a great place to start a conversation |
| 2:02.9 | about the existence of temptation, the reality of temptation, because it gets to who God isn't who we are. |
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