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#44 What to Think and Do during Temptations

By Jonathan S. Rose

Title: What to Think and Do During Temptations

Topic: Salvation

Summary: This bible study outlines five things to think and five things to do during the suffering of spiritual temptations.

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References:
Exodus 14
James 1:13-14
Matthew 4:1-11
Psalms 107
Isaiah 24
Jeremiah 5:14-18
Nahum 2:1-2
Psalms 34:15; 37:24; 118:17-18; 119:71

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Spirit and Life Bible Study broadcast from 6/8/2011. The complete series is available at: www.spiritandlifebiblestudy.com

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Exodus 14:12

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12 Is not this the word that we did tell thee in Egypt, saying, Let us alone, that we may serve the Egyptians? For it had been better for us to serve the Egyptians, than that we should die in the wilderness.

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Arcana Coelestia #4937

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4937. Infernal spirits also sometimes by phantasy exhibit a shoulder, by which they cause force to be repelled; and it cannot go beyond this; but this is only for those who are in such phantasy, for they know that in the spiritual world the shoulder corresponds to all power. By the “shoulder,” in the Word also is signified all power, as is evident in the following passages:

Thou hast broken the yoke of his burden, and the staff of his shoulder (Isaiah 9:4).

Ye thrust with side and with shoulder, and push with your horns (Ezekiel 34:21).

Thou cleavest for them every shoulder (Ezekiel 29:7).

That they may serve Jehovah with one shoulder (Zeph. 3:9).

Unto us a Child is born, and the government shall be upon His shoulder (Isaiah 9:6).

The key of the house of David will I put upon his shoulder (Isaiah 22:22).

  
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