The Conquering of Temptation
(Write in the correct answers from the
listening process of CD
8)
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Jesus was tempted in like
_______________ as all men are.
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Yet, as Peter stated Jesus "________
_______ sin, neither
was _________ found in his mouth." (1 Pet. 2:22)
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How was Jesus tempted?
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Obviously, ___________
to commit adultery,
homosexuality, lying, cheating or stealing.
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For if he was, in his own words, he would have already
________ in ______________.
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How and in what was Jesus tempted?
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Again, Luke 4: "And Jesus being full of the Holy
Ghost returned from Jordan, and was led by the Spirit into the
wilderness, Being forty days tempted of the devil. And in those days he
did eat nothing: and when they were ended, he afterward hungered. And
the devil said unto him, If thou be the Son of God, command this stone
that it be made bread. And Jesus answered him, saying, It is written,
That man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word of God."
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Was the temptation to
be ____________ or to ____________ that hungriness?
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The temptation is found in the words, "_____
______ _____ the Son of God, command this stone that it be made bread."
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He is being tempted to satisfy this basic need in
____ ____ power of whom he was.
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If he would have performed the miracle in the
__________ of
being the Son of God (which he had the capability to do), he would have
__________ what it meant to be the Son of God.
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How Jesus overcame the temptation to do this miracle
in his own strength as the Son of God.
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He _________ his life not as one who did what the Father
told him to do, but he experienced life as the Father lived _____ and
__________ him.
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As he said, "As the living Father hath sent me
... ______ _______ by the Father." (John 6:57)
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He also stated, "If ye had known me,
ye should have known my Father also: and from henceforth ye know him,
and have seen him. Philip saith unto him, Lord, show us the Father, and
it sufficeth us. Jesus saith unto him, Have I been so long time with
you, and yet hast thou not known me, Philip? he that hath seen me hath
seen the Father; and how sayest thou then, Show us the Father? Believest
thou not that I am in the Father, and the Father in me? the words that I
speak unto you I speak not of myself: but the Father that dwelleth in
me, he doeth the works. Believe me that I am in the Father, and the
Father in me: or else believe me for the very works' sake. (John
14:7-11)
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Jesus overcame the temptation because "the words
that I speak unto you I speak not of myself: but the Father that
dwelleth in me, he doeth the ___________."
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Jesus overcame the temptation because he
_____________ in
the Heavenly Father to live ___________ him and to __________ his life.
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It is the secret for everyone to overcome temptation.
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As Jesus said, again, "As the living Father hath
sent me, and I live by the Father...even [you] shall live by me.
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If you are attempting to live for Jesus, you will fall
to the temptation of thinking that you can, if you can only become
dedicated and committed, live the life that you should be living.
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Falling to that temptation, you will
continually find yourself going down the wrong street--the street will
come and you will enter.
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The writer of Proverbs put it in these
words: (7:1-5)
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"My son, keep my words, and
lay up my commandments with thee. Keep my commandments, and live; and my
law as the apple of thine eye. Bind them upon thy fingers, write them
upon the table of thine heart. Say unto wisdom, Thou art my sister; and
call understanding thy kinswoman: That they may keep thee from the
strange woman, from the stranger which flattereth with her words."
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What will keep the young man from the street of the
strange woman . . . which flattereth with her ___________?"
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____________ and
_______________ from the commandments of God.
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In the light of the Word made
___________ in Jesus of
Nazareth, it is Jesus that _______ you from the ______ of the strange
woman.
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___________
Jesus--______ him as the apple of
thine eye . . . _____ him upon thy fingers . . . let him be _________ upon
the table of thine heart . . . and you, too, will be kept from the
________ of the strange women . . . which flattereth with her words.
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The Life of Christ is
the only _________ that can keep you from even _________ to go
down the wrong street.
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