Why does the Lord's prayer say, "Lead us not into temptation?

In today's message, we will be discussing why the Lord's Prayer says, "Lead us not into temptation."

Does God lead people into temptation? Welcome to the Jeshurun Ministry GB channel in the Bahamas. In 2019, the Lord told me to preach the gospel. Trouble is coming to the earth. Several years later, He spoke again and said, "Trouble is now here." And indeed we are seeing it everywhere and more is coming friend.

The Our Father which in Latin is called the Pater Noster is the most famous prayer in the world. And this question about why The Lord's Prayer or the Our Father says lead us not into temptation is a legitimate question and does need clarification. The Lord's Prayer is the most famous prayer in all of the Christian faith. Prayed by almost all of those in our faith. It is the first prayer that children learn after learning the prayer that says, "Now I lay me down to sleep. I pray the Lord my soul to keep. If I should die before I wake, I pray the Lord my soul to take."

The speaker was taught The Lord's Prayer as a child by his Baptist mother. It is the only prayer that even those who do not go to church know by heart. This indeed is the perfect prayer known and loved for its simplicity and for its completeness. And there are two versions. Matthew 6:9 gives us the most complete version. The version in Luke 11 and 2 is a bit shorter and the wording slightly different. Yet some say it was not meant to be a prayer at all. Well, the Matthew 6 version is the most complete prayer in the entire world. I repeat that.

The prayer covers all the bases, hitting all the key elements, and I'll show you why. It hits all the key elements of our Christian faith.

• It begins with adoration and reverencing our great and awesome God.

• Then it expresses our faith in the prophetic Word of God, which declares that His kingdom is going to come on the earth.

• And indeed we call for His will to be established here in the earth in the same way that His perfect will is done in heaven.

• We also make humble supplication for our daily needs to be met acknowledging that all our needs are supplied by our great God by the Father of Lights.

• And then we confess our sins and ask for His forgiveness making a strange request that seemed to go over the heads of many. Without realizing it, we ask the Lord only to forgive us our sins in the manner in which we forgive others their offenses against us.The Luke version puts us into even more hot water by saying that we also forgive everyone who is indebted to us, which we do not do.

• Then we ask God not to lead us into temptation, but to deliver us from evil.

• This is the expression that is questioned. And finally, in a powerful doxology, we close by declaring that the only real kingdom is His kingdom and all power on earth belong to our God and God alone and His eternal kingdom for all eternity. And we say it this way. For Thine is the kingdom, the power, and the glory forever and ever. Amen.

Father, we pray against the efforts of those used by Satan to distort the meaning of Your holy Word. We bring to nothing the enemy's plan to create doubt in the hearts of Your children. Bless Your Word as it goes forth. Bless the listener. In the precious and the holy name of Jesus Christ we pray. Amen.

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Some teach that this is not a prayer, only a format for a prayer. And for more than a thousand years, this prayer has been debated and challenged because many say that Jesus Christ never intended that we should say this prayer. I've met people on the street who've said the same to me. It was only meant to be a format for our prayers. My response to this is, then why is it called The Lord's Prayer? Did He not pray it? Some say they hold the view that it was not meant to be a prayer because Christ warned about vain repetition. However, this is not a vain repetition if you mean it from your heart. This is very meaningful repetition. A vain repetition is any prayer that we pray repeating over and over the same thing that we do not mean from the heart.

So here's the big question. Does the Lord lead His children into temptation? The full sentence taken from the Lord's prayer found in Matthew 6 reads as follows. Give us this day our daily bread and forgive us our trespasses as we forgive those who trespass against us and lead us not into temptation but deliver us from evil. The question that the individual was asking is why does the prayer say lead us not into temptation? Does the Lord lead His children into temptation? Of course not.

The enemy is always trying to poke holes in our faith. He's always trying to destroy the integrity of God's Word. His objective is to create a sliver of doubt in our minds about the veracity of God's Word. He is thrilled when we stumble or freeze at anything in the Word of God. Then he tries to pounce on us.

Here's how the devil deceives us. Listen to this. Genesis 3 and 4 conversation between Satan and Eve in the Garden of Eden. When tempted to eat from the tree in the middle of the garden, Eve responded by saying the following to Satan. God said, "You shall not eat it, nor shall you touch it, lest you die." Now, here's Satan's response to Eve. You will not surely die. For God knows that in the day you eat of it, your eyes will be opened and you will be like God, knowing good and evil." This is a strategy often used by deceivers and liars. They attempt to use something that is true in order to prop up a blatant lie. If you fall for it, you're done for. You must flush it out. You must discern it. Do not allow yourself to be deceived.

Sure enough, Eve was deceived. She tasted the fruit. Her eyes were open to good and evil, but she seemed to be unharmed. And then, when Adam saw that Eve had eaten the fruit and did not die, he was emboldened to try the fruit himself. And of course, neither did Adam die. And his eyes were opened like Eve's. However, there was a huge problem. They had been disobedient to God, and there was a great penalty for their disobedience.

You see why it is so important for us to make sure which spirit is speaking to us. And the Word of God tells us to try or test the spirits to make sure they are of the Lord. And this is perhaps the first time that Satan had approached the inhabitants of the Garden of Eden. Clearly, they did not know of his wickedness, his powerful delusion, his persuasive deception, and his cunning craftiness. Or maybe like many of us today, they thought they could outwit Satan.

According to James 1:14, this is what happened. When we are drawn away by our own desires or greed and then enticed by Satan to fulfill our desires, then when that desire has conceived or when it is fulfilled, it gives birth to sin. And sin when it is full grown brings forth death.

And so Adam and Eve died that day. And you can be sure Satan knew what God meant when He said that if they ate the fruit, they would die. He knew that God was speaking of a spiritual death and not a physical death. And he hid this truth from Adam and Eve who did not understand what God meant. He caused them to doubt God's Word by leading them away from the true meaning of the death that they would die.

And we must remember that according to Numbers 23 and 19, God is not a man that He should lie. God cannot lie. His Word is always true. And yes indeed, both Adam and Eve died on that day. They died a spiritual death. And all of their descendants after them have been and will continually be born spiritually dead even until today. What a huge problem was caused by a simple act of disobedience. Thousands of generations have had to suffer and will continue to suffer until Christ comes.

Now let's discuss lead us not into temptation. Immediately after The Lord's Prayer says lead us not into temptation, it goes on to say but deliver us from evil. The second part of the prayer is clearly hailing God as a deliverer calling upon Him to save us from evil. If God is a deliverer, then He cannot logically be called a tempter because a tempter is evil and is no deliverer. God cannot be both evil and good. In the same way, one whose entire purpose is evil cannot be called a good man. He is unquestionably evil. If God tempted us, it would make Him a contradiction and it would make no sense at all. If He tempted us, it would make Him duplicitous and contradictory. Satan is the tempter.

Here's a key scripture proving God is not the tempter. There are many holy scripture references in fact that make it clear that God is not the one who leads us into temptation, but rather He is the one who rescues us from temptation. And surely we are all tempted every day in life. The one who delivers us will hardly ever be the one who also tempts us unless he's a deceiver.

So here's a text from Matthew 4 which clearly identifies Satan as the tempter. Then Jesus was led by the spirit into the wilderness to be tempted by the devil. After fasting 40 days and 40 nights, He was hungry. The tempter came to Him and said, "If You are the Son of God, tell these stones to become bread." We see here that there is one who is called the tempter and he is Satan, the devil.

If someone says, for instance, please do not leave me, does it make them the leaving kind? For instance, a child may say to the parent, please do not leave me. Meanwhile, the parent has no plans to leave the child and is not the kind of parents who desert their children. The fearful child's plea cannot make the parent unfit. In the same way, the fearful plea that says, "Lead us not into temptation," cannot and does not make God an unfit God. It does not make Him a tempter, especially since in the very same sentence, we call upon Him as the deliverer.

There are additional scriptures that make clear the image of God, who He is, and how He behaves as it relates to temptations.

Number one, in James 1:13, the Word of God says, "Let no one say when he is tempted, I am tempted by God. For God cannot be tempted by evil, nor does He Himself tempt anyone.

Number two, in speaking of the Son of God, Hebrews 4:15 says, "For we do not have a High Priest who is unable to sympathize with our weakness. But we have one who was tempted in every way that we are, yet was without sin." So even the Son of God Himself was tempted just as we are.

Number three, and finally, second Peter 2:9 says, "If all this is so, then the Lord knows how to rescue the Godly from trials and to hold the unrighteous for punishment on the day of judgment."

Friend, God cannot both be the judge and the wrongdoer. This is something that many men do every day, something that God cannot ever do. So we can have complete confidence in the integrity of God's Word. And believers in Christ are called upon to believe and to trust every Word in the holy scriptures. Even the Words that we cannot understand. In order for our trust in God to be genuine, it must be wholehearted. It must be implicit and it must be blind. And the following scripture makes it clear that we can have full confidence in God's Word.

According to the amplified version of second Timothy 3 and 16, all scripture is God breathed, which means it is given by divine inspiration. It is profitable for instruction, for conviction of sin, for correction of error, and restoration to obedience, for training in righteousness, which simply means learning to live in conformity to God's will. And this conformity to God's will applies to our public and private lives in which we should behave honorably with personal integrity and moral courage. In conclusion, sometimes we also use some of the psalms as prayers that we offer up to God. In fact, praying in the spirit is far more powerful when we are praying God's holy Word back to Him. For instance, we use the 23rd Psalm as a comforting prayer. The Lord is my shepherd. I shall not want. He maketh me to lie down in green pastures. He leadeth me beside the still waters. Another powerful way to pray by saying, "The Lord is my light and my salvation. Whom shall I fear? The Lord is the strength of my life. Of whom shall I be afraid?" Are these vain repetitions? Certainly not.

Our Father, which art in heaven, oh dear God, You are indeed in heaven. You are the Creator of all the earth. Hallowed be thy name. Yes, Lord holy is Your name. Precious and wonderful to us. And there's no other name like Your name Father. We thank You. We praise You. We bless You. Thy kingdom come. Yes, Lord. I am anticipating the coming of Your awesome and wonderful kingdom. Come Lord Jesus. We thank You and praise You Father in Jesus precious name. Amen.

Friend. Perhaps you do not know Jesus Christ as Lord and Savior and you'd like to know Him as your personal Savior or you'd like to return to Him. Please say this prayer after me. Engage your heart and He will honor your sacrifice.

• Father, I am a sinner.

• I am sorry for all my sins.

• Dear Lord, I crave Your forgiveness.

• Thank You Lord for Your forgiveness.

• Today I have decided to accept Jesus Christ as my Lord and Savior.

• Dear Lord Jesus, welcome to my heart.

• Make it Your home.

• I give You the key to my heart because I now belong to You forever.

• Please keep the key.

• Please give me the Holy Spirit to lead me into all truth.

• Thank You, Lord, for saving my soul. Amen.

Welcome, friend, to the body of believers in Christ. There are many of us here awaiting the return of the Good Master. In the meantime, let your pastor know you've committed your life to the Lord. You want to be baptized the way Jesus Christ was baptized by immersion. Begin reading the Word of God every day. It is your daily food. You will fall away if you do not get God's Word.

Begin in the book of John. Then go to Matthew, Mark, and Luke reading audibly because faith is increased by hearing the Word of God. Pray daily. Attend at your local church. And one glad morning the Savior will come and receive us all unto Himself. And we shall indeed forever be with the Lord. God bless and keep you in Jesus mighty name. Amen.