EPISODE · Jun 13, 2025 · 8 MIN
Lead us not into temptation
from Daily Picture · host Stephanie Hawkins
I think on the one verse in The Lord's Prayer in which we declare that God does indeed "Lead us not into temptation but delivers us from evil" (Matthew 6:13). James 1:13 informs us that God never tempts us. 1 Peter 1:16 also tells us that God is leading us to be Holy like Him. In Genesis 4 we learn that Adam and Eve's first 2 sons were Cain and Abel. Abel worked the soil and gave God some grown produce. Abel tended sheep and gave God his best sheep. God was happy with. Abel's offering but not Cain's which was not the best of his crop. God said he should do what is right in following God completely, expressed in perfect giving. When Cain got cross at this discipline of God's, God further told him, " ...if you do not do what is right, sin is crouching at your door. It desires to have you but you must rule over it". Cain ignores that advice to follow God's leading and, instead, follows the route of temptation away from God with his jealousy, which caused him to go on and sin by killing his brother Abel. God leads us "not into temptation" but rather into His holy ways and wants us to rule over the path of temptation by not even stepping on to it.
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I think on the one verse in The Lord's Prayer in which we declare that God does indeed "Lead us not into temptation but delivers us from evil" (Matthew 6:13). James 1:13 informs us that God never tempts us. 1 Peter 1:16 also tells us that God is leading us to be Holy like Him. In Genesis 4 we learn that Adam and Eve's first 2 sons were Cain and Abel. Abel worked the soil and gave God some grown produce. Abel tended sheep and gave God his best sheep. God was happy with. Abel's offering but not Cain's which was not the best of his crop. God said he should do what is right in following God completely, expressed in perfect giving. When Cain got cross at this discipline of God's, God further told him, " ...if you do not do what is right, sin is crouching at your door. It desires to have you but you must rule over it". Cain ignores that advice to follow God's leading and, instead, follows the route of temptation away from God with his jealousy, which caused him to go on and sin by killing his brother Abel. God leads us "not into temptation" but rather into His holy ways and wants us to rule over the path of temptation by not even stepping on to it.
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