Temptation

Satan attacks the individual Christian mostly through temptation.  And he focusses this assault in two spheres:

The Desires of the World

He will seek to tempt a believer to become absorbed into the world's system:

• to make the material blessings that the world offers
• to make the honour and recognition of this world an important goal; and
• to make the comfort of being one with those of this world our basis for security

The Desires of the flesh

Through Christ's work on the Cross, the true Christian is delivered from the results of sin, and from the power of sin (Rom 6:6-14).  But he still lives in a physical body that is subject to natural appetites and desires.  Satan will use these to try and get a Christian to place greater importance upon them than upon the prompting of the Holy Spirit within him (Rom 8:5-9)





Rev Dr. Ronnie Ng