Tempted - Deceived!

From: Messages of God's Love: 1982

One day a policeman in one of the big city parks saw an expensive-looking, pedigreed dog following a man who was very poorly dressed. The dog kept sniffing at the man’s pant-leg. This made the policeman suspicious. He stopped the man and discovered that he had placed a piece of meat inside the cuff of his pant-leg. It had been placed there to lure the little dog away from her home. The policeman rescued the dog just in the nick of time, and the dog was returned to its owner.

Satan is a master at tempting and deceiving. He uses many different “baits” to tempt boys and girls away from the Lord Jesus and into sin. But the Lord Jesus came to rescue tempted and deceived people and will keep all who put their trust in Him.

“Be not deceived.” Gal. 6:7⁷Be not deceived; God is not mocked: for whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap. (Galatians 6:7).

The Lord Jesus is “able to save” Heb. 7:25²⁵Wherefore he is able also to save them to the uttermost that come unto God by him, seeing he ever liveth to make intercession for them. (Hebrews 7:25), and “able to keep” Jude 24²⁴Now unto him that is able to keep you from falling, and to present you faultless before the presence of his glory with exceeding joy, (Jude 24).

Ask the Saviour to help you,

Comfort, strengthen and keep you,

He is willing to aid you,

He will carry you through.

ML-10/24/1982

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