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David: Victory in Temptation
Today I invite you to come back on the battlefield, to reflect on the spiritual battle with our Goliaths . After a struggle of David , his hope in the Lord his trust in the Almighty – a good lesson for us, leading spiritual warfare in the Earth Valley. Reading about the struggle of David , we think about their spiritual enemies , their victories and defeats , its struggle and its temptations . Who does not? If the Lord Jesus Christ Himself was tempted (Heb. 2:18 ), the more His disciples !
We fight with the devil, the world, the lust of the flesh. God has begotten us “the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead to a living hope” (1 Pet. 1: 3), gave us a new heart, a new spirit (Ezek. 26:36), but our old nature counteracts the spirit; is a tough struggle is between the spirit and the flesh (Rom. 7: 22-23; 1 Cor. 15:31). “… The flesh lusts against the Spirit, and the Spirit – against the flesh …” (Gal. 5:17). “A tree cut down, but the roots remain, and new branches of sin can still grow from the root of an old tree cut down.” Sometimes the struggle intensifies, from time to time on the battlefield is becoming a lull. But if a person increases, strives for perfection, the struggle will never end.