Lawrence DeMetrius

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Lesson 24 of 77
Deliverance From Temptation and Evil
{Lesson 17, 44, 50, 58}
By Lawrence DeMetrius

Christ instructs His Brethren to ask Yahweh on a daily basis, not to be led into temptation but be delivered from it. He said,

And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil: for THINE is the kingdom, and the power, and the glory, forever. Amen.
[Mt 6:13a]

It is likely because He knew their carnal nature would always be vulnerable to temptation. He said,

Watch and pray, that ye enter not into temptation: the spirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak.
[Mt 26:41]

Ironically, Christ Himself was led into a wilderness by the Holy Ghost to be tempted of Lucifer. Apostle Mathew writes,

Then was Jesus led up of the Spirit into the wilderness to be tempted of the devil.
[Mt 4:1]

The Lord’s Wilderness Experience is the ultimate expression of the idea that some experiences with temptation and evil, are divinely appointed and purposed for some beneficial reason. Apostle James writes,

My brethren, count it all joy when ye fall into divers temptations;
Knowing this, that the trying of your faith worketh patience.
But let patience have her perfect work, that ye may be perfect and entire, wanting nothing.
[Jam 1:2-4]


Apostle Peter writes,

Wherefore let them that suffer according to the will of God commit the keeping of their souls to HIM in well doing, as unto a faithful Creator.
[I Pet 4:19]

But the God of all grace, WHO hath called us unto HIS eternal glory by Christ Jesus, after that ye have suffered a while, make you perfect, stablish, strengthen, settle you.
[I Pet 5:10]

Satanic powers are well aware of human weakness. They manipulate it with various temptations through people, things, and seemingly ideal situations. It’s been this way since the Fall in Eden. Per Job's experience, Lucifer’s tactics are clearly seen as well as his disposition that mortals can be swayed from devotion to the FATHER, with temporal assets and conditions. Christ’s Wilderness Experience also clarifies that satanic powers only launch their temptations during one’s most vulnerable state. Apostle Mathew writes,

And when He <Christ> had fasted forty days and forty nights, He was afterward a hungered.
And when the tempter came to Him, he said, If Thou be the Son of God, command that these stones be made bread.
[Mt 4:2, 3]

The Elect are admonished to sever relations with any source that discourages their wholehearted devotion to THE LORD. Apostle Paul writes,

Wherefore seeing we also are compassed about with so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which doth so easily beset us, and let us run with patience the race that is set before us.
[Heb 12:1]

The Lord Jesus said,

No man can serve two masters: for either he will hate the one, and love the other; or else he will hold to the one, and despise the other. Ye cannot serve God and mammon.
[Mt 6:24]
Apostle John writes,

Love not the world, neither the things that are in the world. If any man love the world, the love of the Father is not in him.
[I Jn 2:15]

The Lord Jesus advised that evil will always be present to challenge mortals to some degree on a daily basis. He said,

Take no thought for the morrow: for the morrow shall take thought for the things of itself. Sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof.
[Mt 6:34]

Per Enoch, EVIL SPIRITS are divinely tasked to wreak havoc upon the children of disobedience and present challenges to the righteous. He writes,

And now, the giants who are produced from the spirits <angelic beings> and flesh <mortal beings>, shall be called EVIL SPIRITS upon the earth, and on the earth shall be their dwelling.
EVIL SPIRITS have proceeded from their bodies; because they are born from men <mortal beings> and from the holy Watchers <angelic beings> is their beginning and primal origin;
They shall be EVIL SPIRITS on earth, and EVIL SPIRITS shall they be called. [As for the spirits of heaven, in heaven shall be their dwelling, but as for the spirits of the earth which were born upon the earth, on earth shall be their dwelling.]
And the spirits of the giants afflict, oppress, destroy, attack, do battle, and work destruction on the earth, and cause trouble: they take no food, but nevertheless hunger and thirst, and cause offences. And these spirits shall rise up against the children of men and against the women, because they have proceeded from them.
[Eno 15:8-12]

Blessedly, Yahweh does not allow more upon HIS children than they can bare of temptation and evil. Apostle Paul writes,

There hath no temptation taken you but such as is common to man: but God is faithful, WHO will not suffer you to be tempted above that ye are able; but will with the temptation also make a way to escape, that ye may be able to bear it.
[I Cor 10:13]
Yahweh required Christ to experience the weakness of human mortality. It was prerequisite to becoming the High Priest Who was made perfectly adaptable to every mortal’s need. Because of His sacrifice, Yahweh highly esteems Him as Lord and Master Teacher of all who are wholeheartedly given to divine worship. The New Testament notes,

For it became Him, for Whom are all things, and by
Whom are all things, in bringing many sons unto glory, to make the Captain of their salvation perfect through sufferings.
[Heb 2:10]

Who in the days of His flesh, when He had offered up prayers and supplications with strong crying and tears unto HIM that was able to save Him from death, and was heard in that He feared;
Though He were a Son, yet learned He obedience by the things which He suffered;
And being made perfect, He became the Author of eternal salvation unto all them that obey Him;
Called of God an high priest after the order of Melchisedec.
[Heb 5:7-10]

By following Christ’s example of submission to the HEAVENLY FATHER, challenges of temptation and evil can always be victoriously overcome. The New Testament notes,

Wherefore seeing we also are compassed about with so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which doth so easily beset us, and let us run with patience the race that is set before us.
Looking unto Jesus the Author and Finisher of our faith; Who for the joy that was set before Him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is set down at the right hand of the throne of God.
[Heb 12:1, 2]

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