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.
Use the reference links below to follow along in the Bible as you watch.
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
#44 What to Think and Do during Temptations
By Jonathan S. Rose
Spirit and Life Bible Study broadcast from 6/8/2011. The complete series is available at: www.spiritandlifebiblestudy.com
Matthew 4:1-11
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Then was Jesus led up of the Spirit into the wilderness to be tempted of the devil.
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And when he had fasted forty days and forty nights, he was afterward an hungred.
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And when the tempter came to him, he said, If thou be the Son of God, command that these stones be made bread.
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But he answered and said, It is written, Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of God.
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Then the devil taketh him up into the holy city, and setteth him on a pinnacle of the temple,
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And saith unto him, If thou be the Son of God, cast thyself down: for it is written, He shall give his angels charge concerning thee: and in their hands they shall bear thee up, lest at any time thou dash thy foot against a stone.
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Jesus said unto him, It is written again, Thou shalt not tempt the Lord thy God.
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Again, the devil taketh him up into an exceeding high mountain, and sheweth him all the kingdoms of the world, and the glory of them;
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And saith unto him, All these things will I give thee, if thou wilt fall down and worship me.
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Then saith Jesus unto him, Get thee hence, Satan: for it is written, Thou shalt worship the Lord thy God, and him only shalt thou serve.
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Then the devil leaveth him, and, behold, angels came and ministered unto him.
Doctrine of the Lord #13
13. That the Lord fully conquered the hells by His suffering of the cross is something He Himself teaches in John:
Now is the judgment of this world; now the prince of this world will be cast out. (John 12:31)
This the Lord spoke when the passion of the cross was imminent. Again in John:
The prince of this world is judged. (John 16:11)
Again:
...have faith, I have overcome the world. (John 16:33)
And in Luke:
(Jesus) said..., “I saw Satan fall like lightning from heaven.” (Luke 10:18)
The world, the prince of the world, Satan and the devil, all mean hell.
[2] That the Lord also fully glorified His humanity by His suffering of the cross is something He teaches in John:
After (Judas) had gone out, Jesus said, “Now the Son of man is glorified, and God is glorified in Him. If God is glorified in Him, God will also glorify Him in Himself, and glorify Him immediately.” (John 13:31-32)
Again in John:
Father, the hour has come. Glorify Your Son, that Your Son also may glorify You.... (John 17:1, cf. 17:5)
Again:
“Now My soul is troubled....” (And He said,) “Father, glorify Your name.” And a voice came from heaven..., “I have both glorified it and will glorify it again.” (John 12:27-28)
In Luke:
“Ought not the Christ to have suffered this and to enter into His glory?” (Luke 24:26)
These statements are made regarding the suffering of the cross. The Lord’s glorification is the uniting of His Divinity and humanity, which is why we are told, “God will also glorify Him in Himself.”
Published by the General Church of the New Jerusalem, 1100 Cathedral Road, Bryn Athyn, Pennsylvania 19009, U.S.A. A translation of Doctrina Novae Hierosolymae de Domino, by Emanuel Swedenborg, 1688-1772. Translated from the Original Latin by N. Bruce Rogers. ISBN 9780945003687, Library of Congress Control Number: 2013954074.
