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Contact Fred for more information about scheduling a seminar or to receive an information packet about his ministry.
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Fred Overton Seminars, Inc.
1025 Secret Cove Dr.
Sugar Hill, GA 30518
Phone: 770-945-2307
Fax: 770-945-2307
Email: FOvertonjr@bellsouth.net
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| Questions and Answers |
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| Question: How could Jesus, who was the Son of God, be tempted? |
| Answer: Jesus couldn't be tempted in His deity, but He could be tempted in His humanity. |
Remember this: James 1:13 says, "God cannot be tempted by evil." Jesus, when He was on this earth, was the incarnate God. Because of who He was, He could not be tempted by sin or evil. Thus He could not sin because He was God.
Consider this: Jesus, as a man, was tempted to the limit, yet He never gave in to the temptation. The temptation ran its full course. When Satan tempted Jesus, He suffered temptation beyond any point we will ever experience. How do we know this? The Scripture says, "He was at all points tempted as we are, yet without sin" (Hebrews 4:15). We are tempted -to a certain point, then many times yield to the temptation, thereby sinning. Jesus took the full fury of every temptation to the limit, yet never yielded; thus, He never sinned. (Temptation is not sin; yielding to the temptation is sin.)
Know this: Jesus was tempted. That is a fact. How? That is a mystery. But the reality is, He never sinned!
Think about this: Some people say that Jesus had a body similar to the one Adam had before the "fall". This is not true! Jesus, in His incarnation, did not have a "pre-fall" body like Adam's. Galatians 4:4 says Jesus was "born of a woman." Adam was not born of a woman; his body was created out of the dust. These are two totally different kinds of bodies. While on earth, Jesus took on human flesh that could sense all of the things passed on by Adam in the fall. However, Jesus did not have a sin nature like Adam's, but He could sense pain, sorrow and death. Adam, before the fall, could not experience these things because he was in a state of perfect innocence. Christ took on a "post-fall" type body, minus the sin nature, that could experience the full sensations of temptation, yet without sin. (In theological circles, this is called the "Doctrine of Impeccability" referring to the sinlessness of Christ) |
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