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William Barclay On Temptation
Contributed by Gordon Curley on Nov 24, 2010 (message contributor)
WILLIAM BARCLAY ON TEMPTATION
"Temptation is not meant to make us sin; it is meant to enable us to conquer sin.
It is not meant to make us bad, it is meant to make us good.
It is not meant to weaken us, it is meant to make us emerge stronger and finer and purer from the ordeal.
Temptation is not the penalty of being a man, temptation is the glory of being a man,
Temptation is the test which comes to every man whom God wishes to use.
So, then, we must think of this whole incident,
not so much the TEMPTING, as the TESTING of Jesus."
--William Barclay:
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