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<p>&quot;No <strong>temptation</strong> has seized you except what<br />
  is common to man.&quot; 1 Cor. 10:13<br />
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  There is <strong>not a single sin ever perpetrated by man</strong> <br />
  which does not lie deeply hidden in the recesses of <br />
  <strong>our </strong>fallen nature! But these sins do not stir into <br />
  activity until temptation draws them forth. <br />
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  Temptation<strong> </strong>is to the corruptions of the heart, what <br />
  fire is to stubble. Sin lies quiet in our carnal mind <br />
  until temptation comes to set it on fire. <br />
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  Temptation is to our corrupt nature, what the spark <br />
  is to gunpowder. Have you not found this sad truth: <br />
  how easily by temptation are the corruptions of our <br />
  wretched heart set on fire, and burst into every kind <br />
  of daring and dreadful iniquity?
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  <strong>In temptation,</strong> <strong>we learn what sin is . . .</strong><br />
  its dreadful nature,<br />
  its aggravated character,<br />
  its fearful workings,<br />
  its mad, its desperate upheavings against God, <br />
  and <strong>what we are or would be,</strong> <br />
  <strong>were we left wholly in its hands!</strong><br />
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  &quot;Watch and pray so that you will not fall into<br />
  temptation.&quot;  Matthew 26:41<br />
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  &quot;Hold me up, and I shall be safe!&quot; Psalm 119:117