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Hello Carleeta,
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From: "Carleeta Manser" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Sent: Friday, September 19, 2008 7:38 PM
Subject: {dbilg} He will keep you
“I Will Keep you!”
“Because thou hast kept the word of my patience, I also will keep thee from
the hour of temptation, which shall come upon all the world, to try them
that dwell upon the earth.” Revelation 3:10
In Jesus’ day Nazareth was not the best city in the country. There were many
wicked people living there and many evil influences at work that gave the
place a bad name. In Christ’s day Nazareth was a byword among the people of
the land. “Can there any good thing come out of Nazareth?” Nathanael once
asked (John 1:46).
Amid such surroundings the boy Jesus grew up. He was there as a small boy,
as a junior, as a teen-ager, and as a young adult. Remember too that Jesus
was a human being just as you and I are. He was tempted just as we are
tempted. There may have been gangs of ruffians in His day that challenged
Him to join them in their pranks and destruction, and there were surely
other influences that threatened His sinlessness.
Jesus had to be constantly on the alert “in order to preserve His purity. He
was subject to all the conflicts which we have to meet, that He might be an
example to us in childhood, youth and manhood.” – The Desire of Ages, p. 71.
Jesus is our example. He knows all about our battles with sin and Satan.
Because He knows, He can help us better when temptation comes our way. When
Satan tries to get us to go places where we can’t take Jesus, when he tempts
us to look at or read that which is trashy or impure, when bad company
encourages us to do things we know Christians should not do, Jesus has
promises to help us.
“I also will keep thee from the hour of temptation,” He promises.
Sometimes we think we could be good if we were just someone else, or lived
in some other place. Somehow we think our place to meet temptations is the
hardest. When we think this way let us remember that Jesus grew up in
Nazareth – a bad place too. You and I can find help the same place Jesus
found it as a junior, as an earliteen-ager, as a young man.
Notice too in our text today that, although we must do our part in the
struggle against sin, Jesus says, “I will keep you.” He makes Himself
responsible. He has never lost a battle. Victory may be ours.
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