Comparisons Of A Temptation And Study

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The Contrasts and Comparisons of a Temptation and a Test the words "tempted," "tried" and "tested" have slightly different meanings, yet they all refer to challenges to our faith (Test and Temptations).”
Throughout the Bible there were many who were tempted and tested by the craftiness of the devil. But to mention a few, Eve, Abraham, Nehemiah, David, Job, Moses, etc. Throughout our course of study this week Jesus was tempted and tried by Satan, after the Holy Spirit had come upon him and he had been on the mountain fasting and praying for forty days. Jesus at this time was at his weakest point.
In other words testing and temptations are realities within God's world and some of the ways by which His promises are brought into deliverance.

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