“Blessed is the man who remains steadfast under trial, for when he has stood the test he will receive the crown of life, which God has promised to those who love him. I’d like to take a look at an important passage there to clarify some of the questions that naturally arise from this petition in Matthew 6:13. How do we stand in testing? Does God Tempt? How can we expect the Father to answer this prayer?Ĥ. What does the tempting of the evil one look like?ģ. If God does not tempt any to sin (James 1:13), then what does this petition mean?Ģ. We will approach this final petition of the Lord’s prayer by way of four questions:ġ. Thus ends the reading of God’s Word may he write it on our hearts by faith. Look at the Lord’s prayer with me again, starting in Matthew 6:9. But as we continue focusing together on the Lord’s Prayer, in actually the final portion of it, we find that there is a much more garden-variety demonic activity that we are to be on watch for. Demons are real and biblical and hate you. If any of it is real, it’s certainly demonic deception.Īnd the demonic, and that variety of demonic activity is real. I noticed something this year that struck me, and that is that many of these stories of alien encounters-and don’t get me wrong, I’m sure most of them are people who just want attention-but a common thread through many of the supposed “messages” that these alien beings bring are basically straight evolutionary secular humanism sprinkled with a dash of new-age mumbo-jumbo. One thing recently for me, fun fact, that comes to mind are aliens. Maybe it’s occultism, Anton LaVey maybe it’s The Exorcist. When you think of the demonic, what comes to mind? I want you to turn that question over in your mind. When we are faced with an onslaught of temptation and evil, let us implore the Lord for rescue.Preacher: Pastor Brian Sauvé Deliver Us From Evil All we have to do, this prayer shows, is ask Him for help. The Father may allow testing to come our way, but He promises to sustain us and help us be faithful to Him (1 Cor. 5:16), we should pray daily to be delivered from Satan’s assault. Protect me from the enemy and deliver me from his hands.”Īs those totally dependent on the Spirit (Gal.
DELIVER US FROM EVIL WEST OF MEMPHIS FULL
We may thus pray: “Lord, please do not let me be exposed to a time of testing in which I will face the full fury of the Devil’s assault. Poneros is the Greek term lying behind “evil” in this passage, but this word is better translated “evil one.” Jesus therefore shows us that we should pray for protection against Satan. The parallel clause “but deliver us from evil” (6:13) further shows this to be true. When Jesus asks the Father to lead us not into temptation, He is imploring Him not to allow His people to face an insurmountable test in which our enemy tempts us to sin. In this case, the Creator permitted the Devil to entice the Messiah to sin, but God Himself was not the agent of temptation. For example, Jesus Himself was tested in the wilderness by Satan as a means to fulfill His vocation as the second Adam (Matt. However, this is not what He is saying.Įven though the Lord does not allure us with sin, the Bible is clear He allows His people to go through times of testing. If our Savior was implying that the Father can lure us into sin, then He would be contradicting the witness of Scripture. In the first place, Matthew 6:13 need not refer to a direct enticement to sin that we typically associate with the word temptation. This verse has the potential to cause us much consternation, but looking at a couple of different grammatical considerations will help us understand exactly what Jesus is praying in today’s passage.
But how can Jesus speak such words? Does not the Bible tell us that God does not tempt anyone (James 1:13)? As recorded in the Gospel according to Matthew, the final words of the Lord’s Prayer are “lead us not into temptation” (6:13).
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