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The Temptation to Shift, Part 2 (TMF:2575)

Friday, March 21, 2025
Peace to Live By The Temptation to Shift, Part 2 (TMF:2575) - Daniel Litton
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       The temptation to shift. For sure, there are a lot of those temptations, aren’t there? Why, this was the ploy, or enticement, that Satan laid out before Jesus at his time of tempting. Recall? Satan presented Jesus with the ability to have all the kingdoms of the world right then and there. No wait. No cross (assuming Jesus had knowledge about the cross at that point in time). If we say he did, think how tempting that would of been. We know it would have been tempting because we see later that Jesus asks the Father if the cup my pass from him. He wants to see if there is any other way God’s will can be accomplished in saving the world. He doesn’t want to endure the cross. Yet, we are aware in this instance, that there was no other way. God refused his request, and Jesus faithfully went through the torment of it all. But to continue on this conversation, Satan also worked through false teachers in the early church in order to try to get Christians to shift “from the hope of the gospel.