Temptation – Revesby Presbyterian Church https://revesbypc.org.au Revesby Presbyterian Church Mon, 25 Oct 2021 09:34:43 +0000 en-AU hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.2 https://revesbypc.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/RPC-Logo-2025-Square-200x200.png Temptation – Revesby Presbyterian Church https://revesbypc.org.au 32 32 Handling Temptation (1 Cor. 10:13) https://revesbypc.org.au/2021/10/10/handling-temptation-1-cor-1013/ Sat, 09 Oct 2021 22:00:00 +0000 https://revesbypc.org.au/?p=7985

 

Enticing to sin is a part of Satan’s very nature – Matt.4:3. Calvin defines temptation as ‘everything that allures us.’ Verse 12 is a warning, and verse 13 reads more like a promise.

  1. No temptation is unique.
    • 10:13a. The temptations of the rural Israelites are much the same as
…]]> Put Off The Old Evil, Put on The New Righteousness (Ephesians 4:22-24) https://revesbypc.org.au/2020/04/26/put-off-the-old-evil-put-on-the-new-righteousness-ephesians-422-24/ Sat, 25 Apr 2020 23:00:00 +0000 http://www.revesby.pcnsw.org.au/?p=6249 Peter Barnes: Put Off The Old Evil, Put on The New Righteousness, Ephesians 4:22-24 (Sunday 26 April 2020)

You can only do this if you are actually in Christ. ‘Let us all be good Americans’ assumes we must be Americans in the first place.

1. Put off the old man.…

]]> Handling Temptation (1 Corinthians 10:13) https://revesbypc.org.au/2020/04/19/handling-temptation-1-corinthians-1013/ Sat, 18 Apr 2020 23:00:00 +0000 http://www.revesby.pcnsw.org.au/?p=6197 Peter Barnes: Handling Temptation, 1 Corinthians 10:13 (Sunday 19 April 2020 Morning Service)

Oscar Wilde: ‘I can resist anything except temptation.’ It sounds like Wilde – wit without wisdom. Calvin and Paul Barnett see v.13 as ‘a word of hope’, but it is both a consolation and a warning. Thomas …

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Peter Barnes: Christ the Sympathetic High Priest, Matthew 4:1-11, Heb.4:14-16. (5 April 2020 am)

In Matthew 4:1-11 Satan tempted Christ three times, and three times Christ rebuffed him. J. C. Ryle: ‘A religion without a priest is a poor, unhappy, useless thing.’ A priest represents his people before God, and …

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