Jesus was tempted by sin just as we are. We know that Jesus was without sin. Jesus could not sin; because the very nature of sin that we all inherited from Adam, was not passed on to Jesus at his birth. Sin tempts its own. We are all born into sin and when we are tempted, it is by the very nature that we were born into, the nature of sin. Jesus could not sin, because his nature was not of sin, but of holiness and purity. When Jesus was tempted, there was nothing within him, that even remotely gravitated to that temptation. For Jesus to sin, was something that, simply put, he did not know what it was like. Just like we don't know what it is like to NOT have the nature of sin within us; and what it's like to be tempted, but to have no desire to give in to that temptation. Jesus had no desire within himself, to "give-in" to those temptations that he faced. His desire was to be pure and holy and about the Father's business.
Many of us also, want to be about our Father's business. Pastors, assistant pastors, teachers, preachers, or anyone involved in any way of the ministry, want to be, and are about our Father's business. But the one big difference with us and with Jesus is; we have a nature of sin that we have to contend with everyday. We have to face this nature of sin head on, and make a decision each day, as to whether we are going to "give-in" to that nature of sin that lures us, or, are we going to continue being about our Father's business throughout our daily lives?
Are we going to work on our sermons, our Sunday school lessons, or type up our articles, such as this here, as inspired by God, are we going to read our bibles and spend some time in prayer with the Lord as we start our day; or, are we going to give in to our fleshly, humanistic ways and allow that nature of sin to take precedence over our work for God, and cause us to not complete any given task for the Lord's work that day?
The nature of sin is a powerful thing within all of humanity. Satan works to gratify the flesh man. He uses tactics and subtle thoughts in our minds, that plays on the very weakness of each individual. As much as we hate to admit it, we all have a weakness or weaknesses, of some sort.
Again, it's that nature of sin that appeals to our weaknesses, and unfortunately, many people cannot keep their mouths shut when it comes to talking about their weaknesses. There is something about the very nature of the human being, that enjoys hearing itself talk about its' weaknesses. I've done it; and we all have done it, at some point in our lives. But what happens when we talk about our weakness is; we are speaking out into the airwaves, into the spirit world, the things that entices us into sin. The things that we feel our flesh man enjoys, or is weak to.
As we speak about our weaknesses with our mouths, we are giving Satan and his devils, the opportunities to hear us and they take those words and continually use them to entice us to give in to those weaknesses, thus, the nature of sin within us all, has dominance over our lives and causes us to "drop the ball" when it comes to being about our Father's business.
Jesus' words were from the Father in heaven. He said what he heard from his Father in heaven. he spoke words of wisdom, words of truth, words of knowledge and words of redemption and salvation. he used his words to heal many.
Proverbs 18:21, Death and life are in the power of the tongue, and they that love it shall eat the fruit thereof.
We need to really get a tight grip on how powerful our spoken words are! We can speak good things into our lives or just as easily, bad things.
But it's all based on whether or not, we are going to listen to the nature of sin within us, or are we going to listen to God's words, and be about our Father's business, in order to keep the nature of sin pressed down and under submission to the spirit.
We all have failed at times, I have, you have, we all have. But when we do, we get back up, talk to the Lord, ask him to forgive us of our weaknesses, our failures, our sins, and then return to being about our Father's business, and stand back and watch how he will turn what Satan meant for bad, into something good, and how we can benefit from the outcome of the good that only God can give us.
Fight against the nature of sin within us, through drawing closer to God and staying as close to him as possible. The disciple John, evidently knew something early on, when he sat close to Jesus. He was one within the inner circle of disciples, and most assuredly, heard Jesus say things that quite possibly most of the others did not hear. This assisted him in not giving in to the nature of sin within himself.
We must stay close to Jesus, and the closer to him that we are, the further away from "giving in" to that nature of sin within us, we will be.
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