Required reading
A treatise on Satan's temptations by Richard Gilpin (Available from Amazon or free here) - Read Chapter 24, 25 and 26 of Part 3.
My summary
This week Gilpin finishes looking at Christ's answers in general.
Gilpin gives us his final directions, telling us:
(iii) temptations are best answered when they are presently denied and forthwith repelled;
(iv) that temptations are best repelled by arguments drawn from the word of God;
(v) that in all our endeavours of resistance, frequent and earnest prayers are not to be neglected.
What grabbed me
I appreciated Gilpin's personal witness to the power of Scripture: 'Another evidence of its [Scripture's] usefulness is from the success which the children of God have had in the right management of this weapon. It is observable that while Christ answered by Scripture, Satan was silenced, and had not what to reply to the answer, but was forced to betake himself to a new temptation...of this I myself have good experience ; I have suffered many great passions and vehement, but so soon as I laid hold of any place of Scripture, and stayed myself upon it, as upon an anchor, straightway my temptations did vanish away, which without the word had been impossible for me to endure, though but a little space, much less to overcome.'
Scripture silences Satan!
Next week's reading
There is no reading next week.
We have now concluded Thursday Theology Biographies in the Book Club.
For more information: Reformed Book Club Closing.
Now it's your turn
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